{"id":42363,"date":"2023-06-15T09:20:37","date_gmt":"2023-06-15T09:20:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblaridion.info\/blog\/?p=42363"},"modified":"2023-06-15T09:20:37","modified_gmt":"2023-06-15T09:20:37","slug":"the-ballad-of-east-and-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblaridion.info\/blog\/the-ballad-of-east-and-west\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ballad of East and West"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>The Ballad of East and West<\/h1>\n<blockquote class=\"templatequote\">\n<div class=\"poem\">\n<pre class=\"templatequotecite\">Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet,Till Earth and Sky stand presently at God's great Judgment Seat;But there is neither East nor West, Border, nor Breed, nor Birth,When two strong men stand face to face, though they come from the ends of the earth!\r\n\u2014\u2009<cite>lines 1-4        Rudyard Kipling (1889)<\/cite><\/pre>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Times are a changing and the old colonial powers are trying to turn the tide.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Africa STUNNER! Ditching U.S. dollar for trade Kenyan President&#8217;s Announcement Shakes Global Economy (14 min)<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Africa STUNNER! Ditching U.S. dollar for trade Kenyan President&#039;s Announcement Shakes Global Economy\" width=\"614\" height=\"345\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/i2vzNKvnhbk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Netherlands and Canada to bring Syria before International Court of Justice (8 min)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Netherlands and Canada to bring Syria before International Court of Justice\" width=\"614\" height=\"345\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bhIv_898WfM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ballad of East and West Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet,Till Earth and Sky stand presently at God&#8217;s great Judgment Seat;But there is neither East nor West, Border, nor Breed, nor Birth,When two strong men stand face to face, though they come from the ends of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7507],"tags":[3102,114,10502,10635,2060,625,7058],"class_list":["post-42363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-africa","tag-china","tag-colonial-power","tag-east","tag-netherlands","tag-syria","tag-west"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblaridion.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblaridion.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblaridion.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblaridion.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblaridion.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42363"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblaridion.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42366,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblaridion.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42363\/revisions\/42366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblaridion.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblaridion.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblaridion.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}