{"id":16343,"date":"2014-12-18T12:02:50","date_gmt":"2014-12-18T11:02:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=16343"},"modified":"2014-12-18T12:23:02","modified_gmt":"2014-12-18T11:23:02","slug":"cuba-comes-in-from-the-cold-at-last","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=16343","title":{"rendered":"Cuba comes in from the cold &#8211; at last"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a friend of and visitor to both the United States and Cuba, I am really pleased that, after 54 years, we have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-latin-america-30528316\">the news<\/a> of a planned normalisation of relations between the two countries.<\/p>\n<p>When I had a holiday in Cuba almost seven years ago [my account of the trip <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/Cuba.html\">here<\/a>], Fidel Castro had just stepped down from power and I was hoping for major reforms in Cuba and much improved relations with the US. It has taken a long time &#8211; but now we are making real progress.<\/p>\n<p>I prepared for our trip to Cuba by reading the Fidel Castro biography &#8220;My Life&#8221; [my review <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/Biographies#ML\">here<\/a>] and, during the holiday, I read the Martin Cruz Smith novel &#8220;Havana Bay&#8221; [my review <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/fbooks.html#HB\">here<\/a>].<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a friend of and visitor to both the United States and Cuba, I am really pleased that, after 54 years, we have the news of a planned normalisation of relations between the two countries. When I had a holiday in Cuba almost seven years ago [my account of the trip here], Fidel Castro had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-us-current-affairs","category-world-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16343","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=16343"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16351,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16343\/revisions\/16351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}