{"id":5233,"date":"2012-04-16T05:16:15","date_gmt":"2012-04-16T10:16:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=5233"},"modified":"2012-04-16T05:16:15","modified_gmt":"2012-04-16T10:16:15","slug":"better-government-apparently-we-dont-have-an-ambassador-for-china-2012-04-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2012\/04\/16\/better-government-apparently-we-dont-have-an-ambassador-for-china-2012-04-16\/","title":{"rendered":"Better Government:: Apparently We Dont Have An Ambassador for China:: 2012 04 16"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know who is actually not doing their job here, the Commission on Appointments or the Executive who are not giving unassailable names for the post.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nWe live in a world that is fast changing. The power lines are being drawn and a small nation such as are can and should play the diplomacy game. We don&#8217;t have the firepower or the economic muscle to play any other. We need competence in governance NOW!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know who is actually not doing their job here, the Commission on Appointments or the Executive who are not giving unassailable names for the post. &nbsp; We live in a world that is fast changing. The power lines are being drawn and a small nation such as are can and should play the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2012\/04\/16\/better-government-apparently-we-dont-have-an-ambassador-for-china-2012-04-16\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Better Government:: Apparently We Dont Have An Ambassador for China:: 2012 04 16&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-better-government"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5233\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}