{"id":865,"date":"2008-03-29T13:31:28","date_gmt":"2008-03-29T12:31:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=865"},"modified":"2008-03-29T13:31:28","modified_gmt":"2008-03-29T12:31:28","slug":"first-sign-of-change-in-cuba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=865","title":{"rendered":"First sign of change in Cuba"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On 18 February, veteran Cuban leader Fidel Castro announced his formal transfer of power to his brother Raul. On 6 March, I started a 10 day visit to Cuba [my account <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/Cuba.html\">here<\/a>].<br \/>\nOn our trip, we could not fail to record a deep yearning for change and a strong expectation that such change was coming, although nobody knew when and how. The first sign is the announcement that Cubans can now subscribe to a mobile phone service &#8211; although at present only in convertible pesos which are worth 24 times the standard peso in which Cubans are paid [more information <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2008\/mar\/29\/cuba.mobilephones\">here<\/a>].<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 18 February, veteran Cuban leader Fidel Castro announced his formal transfer of power to his brother Raul. On 6 March, I started a 10 day visit to Cuba [my account here]. On our trip, we could not fail to record a deep yearning for change and a strong expectation that such change was coming, [&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-865","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\/865","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=865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}