{"id":3123,"date":"2006-11-29T10:04:11","date_gmt":"2006-11-29T17:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2006\/11\/29\/the-fall-guy\/"},"modified":"2006-11-29T10:04:11","modified_gmt":"2006-11-29T17:04:11","slug":"the-fall-guy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2006\/11\/29\/the-fall-guy\/","title":{"rendered":"The Fall Guy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another Russian &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Yegor_Gaidar\">dissident<\/a>&#8221; gets sick, and guess who is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601085&#038;sid=aZ61EVpGO8cg&#038;refer=europe\">blamed<\/a>. As I said in my <a href=\"http:\/\/antiwar.com\/justin\/?articleid=10066\">column<\/a> the other day, Russia is getting the same treatment these days as Syria, a bona fide member of the &#8220;axis of evil.&#8221; A Lebanese taxi driver <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/mld\/mercurynews\/news\/world\/16103592.htm\">put it this way<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;&#8216;It&#8217;s very clear,&#8217; said the Beirut taxi driver, a Sunni Muslim. &#8216;They blame everything on Syria. If a man divorces his wife, they blame it on Syria.'&#8221; <\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another Russian &#8220;dissident&#8221; gets sick, and guess who is blamed. As I said in my column the other day, Russia is getting the same treatment these days as Syria, a bona fide member of the &#8220;axis of evil.&#8221; A Lebanese taxi driver put it this way: &#8220;&#8216;It&#8217;s very clear,&#8217; said the Beirut taxi driver, a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-3123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antiwar-movement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3123\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3123"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=3123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}