{"id":140,"date":"2006-10-03T17:09:33","date_gmt":"2006-10-03T16:09:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=140"},"modified":"2006-10-03T17:09:33","modified_gmt":"2006-10-03T16:09:33","slug":"two-facts-about-the-un","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=140","title":{"rendered":"Two facts about the UN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This morning, I was on the way to a meeting at the Foreign Office when I passed Westminster Central Hall opposite Westminster Abbey. I saw two young tourists taking photographs and struck up a conversation. I found that they were from South Korea, so I told them two things that they didn&#8217;t know &#8211; and you might not either.<br \/>\nFirst, Westminster Central Hall was the location of the very <a href=\"http:\/\/www.un.org\/Depts\/dhl\/landmark\/pdf\/a-pv1.pdf\">first meeting of the United Nations General Assembly<\/a> on 10 January 1946 and I pointed out the wall plaque commemorating the event. Second, former South Korean Foreign Minister Ban Ki-Moon is almost certain to succeed Kofi Annan as General Secretary of the UN following <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/korea\/article\/0,,1886632,00.html\">a crucial coloured card vote<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning, I was on the way to a meeting at the Foreign Office when I passed Westminster Central Hall opposite Westminster Abbey. I saw two young tourists taking photographs and struck up a conversation. I found that they were from South Korea, so I told them two things that they didn&#8217;t know &#8211; and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}