{"id":11,"date":"2008-05-16T22:25:18","date_gmt":"2008-05-16T21:25:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spark-in-the-ashes.net\/warr\/2008\/05\/16\/cyclone-nargis\/"},"modified":"2008-06-02T01:09:06","modified_gmt":"2008-06-02T00:09:06","slug":"cyclone-nargis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/spark-in-the-ashes.net\/warr\/2008\/05\/cyclone-nargis\/","title":{"rendered":"Cyclone Nargis"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/foreignoffice\/2492418250\/\" title=\"photo sharing\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2087\/2492418250_6f6a87f66b_m.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: solid 2px #000000;\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;\"><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/foreignoffice\/2492418250\/\">UK aid being unloaded in Rangoon, Burma<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\nOriginally uploaded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/foreignoffice\/\">Foreign and Commonwealth Office<\/a><br \/>\n<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<p>Today is two weeks after <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/world\/7385157.stm\">Cyclone Nargis hit Burma<\/a> and the miltary junta are still pissing about over whether aide should be allowed into the country and who should distribute it.<\/p>\n<p>What a bunch of arseholes!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/world\/7402944.stm\">The official death toll for Burma&#8217;s cyclone disaster has jumped to almost 78,000 people, with nearly 56,000 missing, according to state TV.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Whilst a small amount of aide is trickling into the country most of it is being <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/world\/7385157.stm\">taken by the military<\/a>, hardly any is reaching those affected.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nSome Governments are just more wrong than others. <\/p>\n<p>Anyway congratulations to the Burmese Government on being the first winners of the <a href=\"\/soweek\/\">Shit of the Week<\/a> Award.<br \/>\n<br clear=\"all\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UK aid being unloaded in Rangoon, Burma Originally uploaded by Foreign and Commonwealth Office Today is two weeks after Cyclone Nargis hit Burma and the miltary junta are still pissing about over whether aide should be allowed into the country and who should distribute it. What a bunch of arseholes! The official death toll for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,24],"tags":[26,25,27,28],"class_list":["post-11","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abuse","category-world","tag-arseholes","tag-burma","tag-cyclone","tag-disaster"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/spark-in-the-ashes.net\/warr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/spark-in-the-ashes.net\/warr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/spark-in-the-ashes.net\/warr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/spark-in-the-ashes.net\/warr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/spark-in-the-ashes.net\/warr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/spark-in-the-ashes.net\/warr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/spark-in-the-ashes.net\/warr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/spark-in-the-ashes.net\/warr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/spark-in-the-ashes.net\/warr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}