{"id":70,"date":"2006-08-16T10:37:16","date_gmt":"2006-08-16T09:37:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=70"},"modified":"2006-08-16T10:37:16","modified_gmt":"2006-08-16T09:37:16","slug":"a-new-blogger-on-the-block","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=70","title":{"rendered":"A new blogger on the block"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It will be evident from NightHawk that I&#8217;m a keen fan of blogging, so I welcome any addition to the blogosphere. One of the newest bloggers on the block is one of the strangest: President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran. You can check out his new blog <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ahmadinejad.ir\/\">here<\/a>.<br \/>\nAs well as his native Farsi, the President offers his thoughts in English, French and Arabic which is a commendable effort to communicate with a global audience. So far &#8211; in English at least &#8211; all we have is a 2,300-word introductory tract which is not exactly in the spirit of blogging where entries are normally short and topical, but it&#8217;s a start.<br \/>\nWe are also invited to take part in an on-line poll by answering the question: &#8220;Do you think that the US and Israeli intention and goal by attacking Lebanon is pulling the trigger for another word war?&#8221; I think that we can say with confidence that, if the war was only about words, we would all be a lot less worried. If the President thinks that the Americans and the Israelis want a world war, then the third, fourth and fifth letters of his name may be telling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It will be evident from NightHawk that I&#8217;m a keen fan of blogging, so I welcome any addition to the blogosphere. One of the newest bloggers on the block is one of the strangest: President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran. You can check out his new blog here. As well as his native Farsi, the President [&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-70","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\/70","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=70"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}