{"id":448,"date":"2007-09-28T10:21:38","date_gmt":"2007-09-28T17:21:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eaf.net\/mvp\/?p=448"},"modified":"2007-09-28T10:24:02","modified_gmt":"2007-09-28T17:24:02","slug":"axis-of-cement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2007\/axis-of-cement\/","title":{"rendered":"Axis of Cement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First, there&#8217;s the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kansascity.com\/news\/world\/story\/286006.html\">dust-up<\/a> involving Israeli planes and Syrian targets:<\/p>\n<table width=75% align=center bgcolor=pink border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=5>\n<tr>\n<td>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Operation Orchard\u00e2\u20ac\u009d came three days after a North Korean ship docked at a Syrian port, officially carrying cement.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>Now we have <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/International\/wireStory?id=3663456\">this<\/a> involving Iran and Venezuela:<\/p>\n<table width=75% align=center bgcolor=pink border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=5>\n<tr>\n<td>Iran and Venezuela cemented an alliance aimed at countering the United States&#8230;.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>Here cement, there cement, everywhere cement.<\/p>\n<p>If Syria got &#8220;cement&#8221; from North Korea, and got a subsequent visit from the Israelis . . . .<\/p>\n<p>And if Iran got &#8220;cement&#8221; from Venezuela, will the Israelis pop in for a bit there also?<\/p>\n<p>But maybe I&#8217;ve getting my cements all mixed up.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First, there&#8217;s the dust-up involving Israeli planes and Syrian targets: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Operation Orchard\u00e2\u20ac\u009d came three days after a North Korean ship docked at a Syrian port, officially carrying cement. Now we have this involving Iran and Venezuela: Iran and Venezuela cemented an alliance aimed at countering the United States&#8230;. Here cement, there cement, everywhere cement. If &#8230; <a title=\"Axis of Cement\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2007\/axis-of-cement\/\" aria-label=\"More on Axis of Cement\">Read more<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"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":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-middle-east"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prJUJ-7e","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}