{"id":27991,"date":"2022-08-02T15:06:04","date_gmt":"2022-08-02T14:06:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=27991"},"modified":"2022-08-02T15:07:09","modified_gmt":"2022-08-02T14:07:09","slug":"another-match-is-lit-in-the-tinder-dry-balkans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=27991","title":{"rendered":"Another match is lit in the tinder-dry Balkans"},"content":{"rendered":"\nI&#8217;ve said it before and I&#8217;ll say it again. It is something of a joke among my family and friends that, when I visit a country, shortly afterwards there is some sort of catastrophe or crisis. You can see what I mean from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=27547\">this blog posting<\/a>.\n\n\n\n<p>Now, it&#8217;s only a couple of months ago that I visited three countries in the Balkans including Kosovo. You can read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/Back2Balkans\">an account of my trip<\/a>. Today I read that there are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/01\/kosovo-delays-plan-for-volatile-north-as-tensions-rise-near-serbian-border\">renewed tensions<\/a> between Kosovo and Serbia and we have to hope that local politicians will tread carefully. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve said it before and I&#8217;ll say it again. It is something of a joke among my family and friends that, when I visit a country, shortly afterwards there is some sort of catastrophe or crisis. You can see what I mean from this blog posting. Now, it&#8217;s only a couple of months ago that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27991","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\/27991","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=27991"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27998,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27991\/revisions\/27998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}