{"id":10549,"date":"2017-08-03T09:13:49","date_gmt":"2017-08-03T13:13:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/?p=10549"},"modified":"2017-08-03T07:50:30","modified_gmt":"2017-08-03T11:50:30","slug":"meanwhile-in-venezuela","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2017\/08\/meanwhile-in-venezuela.html","title":{"rendered":"Meanwhile in Venezuela"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>It\u2019s getting hit and miss coverage, but at least it\u2019s being covered. \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2017\/jul\/24\/this-is-not-natural-selection-east-africa-is-in-the-grip-of-a-famine-emergency\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Africans by the tens of millions still sit on the brink of the worst humanitarian catastrophe since WWII<\/a>, and nary a chorus of<em> We Are the World<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-latin-america-36319877\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">The BBC steps in<\/a> and helps those of us in <em>el norte<\/em> to get a grip on what\u2019s brought\u00a0Venezuela to the brink.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s getting hit and miss coverage, but at least it\u2019s being covered. \u00a0Africans by the tens of millions still sit on the brink of the worst humanitarian catastrophe since WWII, and nary a chorus of We Are the World. The BBC steps in and helps those of us in el norte to get a grip [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2805,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[3],"class_list":["post-10549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events","tag-current-events"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Meanwhile in Venezuela<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"It&#039;s getting hit and miss coverage, but at least it&#039;s being covered. \u00a0Africans by the tens of millions still sit on the brink of the worst humanitarian\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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