{"id":193299,"date":"2008-12-28T07:14:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-28T12:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/12\/28\/like-this-is-a-surprise\/"},"modified":"2008-12-28T07:14:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-28T12:14:00","slug":"like-this-is-a-surprise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/12\/28\/like-this-is-a-surprise\/","title":{"rendered":"Like This is a Surprise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, defence ministry spokesman Huang Xueping has announced that <a href=\"http:\/\/defensenews.com\/story.php?i=3875499&amp;c=ASI&amp;s=SEA\">China is considering building an aircraft carrier<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This is really no surprise.  There have been indications that China was considering building a carrier for some time, as I <a href=\"http:\/\/40yrs.blogspot.com\/search?q=china+carrier\">have noted<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It will be news when China actually starts formally drawing up requirements, and again when it starts cutting metal or negotiating a purchase, but this is no surprise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, defence ministry spokesman Huang Xueping has announced that China is considering building an aircraft carrier. This is really no surprise. There have been indications that China was considering building a carrier for some time, as I have noted. It will be news when China actually starts formally drawing up requirements, and again when it &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1007,1170,1006,1161],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation","category-china","category-military","category-naval"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193299"}],"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=193299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193299\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}