{"id":1643,"date":"2009-10-28T00:02:21","date_gmt":"2009-10-28T04:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=1643"},"modified":"2009-10-28T11:23:08","modified_gmt":"2009-10-28T15:23:08","slug":"groundhogs-day-for-foreign-affairs-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/1643\/groundhogs-day-for-foreign-affairs-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Groundhog&#8217;s Day for Foreign Affairs &#8220;News&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>True, February is still a few months away. When it comes to reporting the \u201cnews\u201d in foreign affairs, however, there are some stories that just won&#8217;t go away.\u00a0 Joshua Keating over at <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foreignpolicy.com\/articles\/2009\/10\/27\/groundhog_day?page=0,0\" target=\"_blank\">Foreign Policy<\/a><\/em> has compiled a darkly humorous compilation of the stories that never seem to get old. (Or, at least never get a new angle.) Here are some of the headlines (see if you can pick the year): \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.foreignpolicy.com\/articles\/2009\/10\/27\/groundhog_day?page=0,1\" target=\"_blank\">North Korea to return to negotiating table<\/a>\u201d; \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.foreignpolicy.com\/articles\/2009\/10\/27\/groundhog_day?page=0,2\" target=\"_blank\">Pakistan finally getting tough with the Taliban<\/a>\u201d; \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.foreignpolicy.com\/articles\/2009\/10\/27\/groundhog_day?page=0,3\" target=\"_blank\">Israel preparing military strike against Iran<\/a>\u201d; \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.foreignpolicy.com\/articles\/2009\/10\/27\/groundhog_day?page=0,5\" target=\"_blank\">Dollar to be replaced as global reserve currency<\/a>\u201d; \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.foreignpolicy.com\/articles\/2009\/10\/27\/groundhog_day?page=0,7\" target=\"_blank\">Fidel Castro is dying<\/a>\u201d; and of course, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.foreignpolicy.com\/articles\/2009\/10\/27\/groundhog_day?page=0,8\" target=\"_blank\">Israel and Palestinians reach peace deal<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>True, February is still a few months away. When it comes to reporting the \u201cnews\u201d in foreign affairs, however, there are some stories that just won&#8217;t go away.\u00a0 Joshua Keating over at Foreign Policy has compiled a darkly humorous compilation of the stories that never seem to get old. (Or, at least never get a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[388,216,130,386,385,134,389,387,257,384],"class_list":["post-1643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-fidel-castro","tag-foreign-policy","tag-iran","tag-israel","tag-joshua-keating","tag-north-korea","tag-pakistan","tag-palestine","tag-taliban","tag-the-month-of-february"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1643"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1663,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1643\/revisions\/1663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}