{"id":8318,"date":"2012-04-04T12:52:25","date_gmt":"2012-04-04T11:52:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=8318"},"modified":"2012-04-04T12:54:15","modified_gmt":"2012-04-04T11:54:15","slug":"my-personal-guide-to-the-state-of-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=8318","title":{"rendered":"My personal guide to the state of Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was in the British Museum yesterday with my Chinese &#8216;family&#8217; looking at the Egyptian mummies. When we stopped for refreshments in the main court, I found myself in conversation with an Iranian family &#8211; a software engineer, his wife, and their daughter.<\/p>\n<p>My Iranian friend was astonished to find a Westerner who had recently visited Iran and knew something about its politics. I hope that he didn&#8217;t think I was a spy (I gave him my business card) and\u00a0I hope that he isn&#8217;t one (he spoke excellent English).<\/p>\n<p>I told him about my travels in Iran [see my account <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/Iran.html\">here<\/a>] and we spoke about an Iranian film which coincidentally I saw this week [my review <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/FilmsS.html#Separation\">here<\/a>]. I didn&#8217;t tell him that I have read two books of Iranian history [my reviews <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/history2.html#IranianHistory\">here<\/a>] &#8211; that really would have made him suspicious.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was in the British Museum yesterday with my Chinese &#8216;family&#8217; looking at the Egyptian mummies. When we stopped for refreshments in the main court, I found myself in conversation with an Iranian family &#8211; a software engineer, his wife, and their daughter. My Iranian friend was astonished to find a Westerner who had recently [&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-8318","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\/8318","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=8318"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8325,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8318\/revisions\/8325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}