{"id":12622,"date":"2013-04-10T05:55:34","date_gmt":"2013-04-10T10:55:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=12622"},"modified":"2013-04-10T05:55:34","modified_gmt":"2013-04-10T10:55:34","slug":"tomorrows-swedish-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/10\/tomorrows-swedish-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Tomorrow&#8217;s Swedish History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An important note on Swedish tomorrow&#8217;s Swedish history: Sweden and Belarus are enjoying a bit of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rapprochement\" target=\"_blank\"><em>rapprochement<\/em><\/a>.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/news\/world\/sweden-sends-diplomat-to-belarus-after-teddy-stunt\/article_1f3f892f-f676-54c8-b2d2-d6410a56b071.html\" target=\"_blank\">Sweden sends diplomat to Belarus after teddy stunt<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Swedish Foreign Ministry says it is sending a diplomat to Belarus after its ambassador was expelled last year following a Swedish advertising agency&#8217;s stunt air-drop of hundreds of teddy bears into the former Soviet state.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m glad to see Belarus is over the bear-bombing, but I still warn them: <em>Do not sign a defensive pact with Sweden<\/em>.  Although she&#8217;s gone to war with Russia in the past, I really don&#8217;t see that happening again in the near future, unless it becomes Muslim-majority and Russia is one of the European hold-outs.<\/p>\n<p>Ah, the imagination reels.  As I like to say, <em>All possibilities are possible, but not all probabilities are probable.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An important note on Swedish tomorrow&#8217;s Swedish history: Sweden and Belarus are enjoying a bit of rapprochement. Sweden sends diplomat to Belarus after teddy stunt: The Swedish Foreign Ministry says it is sending a diplomat to Belarus after its ambassador was expelled last year following a Swedish advertising agency&#8217;s stunt air-drop of hundreds of teddy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12622"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12624,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12622\/revisions\/12624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}