{"id":1477,"date":"2009-07-06T16:26:55","date_gmt":"2009-07-06T15:26:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=1477"},"modified":"2009-07-06T16:26:55","modified_gmt":"2009-07-06T15:26:55","slug":"the-shame-of-iran-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=1477","title":{"rendered":"The shame of Iran (5)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My wife and I are due to visit Iran on holiday in October. We&#8217;ve already booked the tour and paid the deposit. Now I&#8217;m following the political developments in Iran with more than usual attention and I guess the venom currently being directed by the authorities against Britain means that our trip is now somewhat problematic. But things might be different in a few months.<br \/>\nIf you want an accessible summary of the crisis over the Iranian presidential election, you should look at a set of cartoon pictures. They based on the characters and style in the work &#8220;Persepolis&#8221; by Marjane Satrapi. I admired the film of this book [see my review <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/FilmsO-R.html#Persepolis\">here<\/a>] and was pleased to see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spreadpersepolis.com\/\">the new cartoon strip<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My wife and I are due to visit Iran on holiday in October. We&#8217;ve already booked the tour and paid the deposit. Now I&#8217;m following the political developments in Iran with more than usual attention and I guess the venom currently being directed by the authorities against Britain means that our trip is now somewhat [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1477","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\/1477","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=1477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1477\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}