{"id":196305,"date":"2008-05-09T16:37:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-09T21:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/05\/09\/myanmar-seizes-aid-supplies-from-the-un\/"},"modified":"2008-05-09T16:37:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-09T21:37:00","slug":"myanmar-seizes-aid-supplies-from-the-un","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/05\/09\/myanmar-seizes-aid-supplies-from-the-un\/","title":{"rendered":"Myanmar Seizes Aid Supplies from the UN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is my first post on the subject, because I have very little to say.  I am not a student of the region, and what can you say about a tragedy like the cyclone and its associates storm surge.<\/p>\n<p>This story, where <a href=\"http:\/\/iht.com\/articles\/2008\/05\/09\/asia\/09unaid.php\">authorities in Myanmar seized aid supplies from the UN<\/a>, puzzles me.<\/p>\n<p>I am aware of the paranoia and xenophobia of the military dictatorship there, but I&#8217;m not clear why they would not allow in aid workers in a time like this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is my first post on the subject, because I have very little to say. I am not a student of the region, and what can you say about a tragedy like the cyclone and its associates storm surge. This story, where authorities in Myanmar seized aid supplies from the UN, puzzles me. I am &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1078,964,1219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-disaster","category-foreign-relations","category-south-east-asia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196305"}],"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=196305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196305\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}