{"id":1014,"date":"2009-09-17T09:23:01","date_gmt":"2009-09-17T09:23:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/astraea.net\/blog\/?p=1014"},"modified":"2009-09-17T09:23:01","modified_gmt":"2009-09-17T09:23:01","slug":"us-to-cut-missile-defence-plan-a-good-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/us-to-cut-missile-defence-plan-a-good-start\/","title":{"rendered":"US to cut missile defence plan.  A good start."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The US has cancelled or postponed the plan to emplace missiles in Poland.\u00a0 This is good news.\u00a0 Increasing the volume of armaments is a ludicrous policy in a world where people are dying of malnutrition and thirst and where a gun has no practical purpose except to kill another person.\u00a0 The resources would be better spent on investing in education, housing, agriculture, roads etc in developing countries including Iran.\u00a0 If people have food, homes, jobs and friends they become uninterested in fighting.<\/p>\n<p>BBC: <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/americas\/8260230.stm\">US &#8216;to cut missile defence plan&#8217;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US has cancelled or postponed the plan to emplace missiles in Poland.\u00a0 This is good news.\u00a0 Increasing the volume of armaments is a ludicrous policy in a world where people are dying of malnutrition and thirst and where a gun has no practical purpose except to kill another person.\u00a0 The resources would be better &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/us-to-cut-missile-defence-plan-a-good-start\/\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">US to cut missile defence plan.  A good start.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philosophy","category-risk-and-terror"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4hwcd-gm","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1014"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1016,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014\/revisions\/1016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}