{"id":701,"date":"2011-03-02T10:04:38","date_gmt":"2011-03-02T09:04:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/viewsdesk.com\/2011\/foreign-policy-whispering-at-autocrats\/"},"modified":"2011-03-02T10:08:13","modified_gmt":"2011-03-02T09:08:13","slug":"foreign-policy-whispering-at-autocrats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/viewsdesk.com\/?p=701","title":{"rendered":"Foreign Policy: Whispering at Autocrats"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"categorystyling-link-description\">\n<p>In one fell swoop, the candor of the cables released by WikiLeaks did more for Arab democracy than decades of backstage US diplomacy. It was a public statement exposing what the US Govt really thought about the regime: a statement that was vivid, honest, raw, undiplomatic, extremely well-timed &#8212; and completely inadvertent. Read the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foreignpolicy.com\/articles\/2011\/01\/25\/whispering_at_autocrats?page=full\">full article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In one fell swoop, the candor of the cables released by WikiLeaks did more for Arab democracy than decades of backstage US diplomacy. It was a public statement exposing what the US Govt really thought about the regime: a statement that was vivid, honest, raw, undiplomatic, extremely well-timed &#8212; and completely inadvertent. Read the full [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-link"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/viewsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/viewsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/viewsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/viewsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/viewsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=701"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/viewsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":703,"href":"https:\/\/viewsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701\/revisions\/703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/viewsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/viewsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/viewsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}