{"id":192805,"date":"2009-02-18T18:21:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-18T23:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/02\/18\/kyrgyzstan-makes-it-official\/"},"modified":"2009-02-18T18:21:00","modified_gmt":"2009-02-18T23:21:00","slug":"kyrgyzstan-makes-it-official","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/02\/18\/kyrgyzstan-makes-it-official\/","title":{"rendered":"Kyrgyzstan Makes it Official"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/defensenews.com\/story.php?i=3953044&amp;c=MID&amp;s=TOP\">Kyrgyz ruling party voted to close the airbases<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It comes down to three things:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Kyrgyz wanted a better deal.<\/li>\n<li>The initial deal mostly gave money to family the now overthrown despot, and the Kyrgyz were honked off by that.<\/li>\n<li>A Kyrgyz citizen was shot on base by a US soldier, and no meaning action was taken by US authorities against the soldier, inflaming local anger.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This, along with Russia giving them a better offer, was more than enough for them to kick us out of their airbase.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Kyrgyz ruling party voted to close the airbases. It comes down to three things: The Kyrgyz wanted a better deal. The initial deal mostly gave money to family the now overthrown despot, and the Kyrgyz were honked off by that. A Kyrgyz citizen was shot on base by a US soldier, and no meaning &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[964,1040,1006,1151],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-foreign-relations","category-former-soviet-union","category-military","category-south-asia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192805"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192805\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}