{"id":1522,"date":"2010-06-14T15:02:59","date_gmt":"2010-06-14T13:02:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=1522"},"modified":"2010-06-14T15:02:59","modified_gmt":"2010-06-14T13:02:59","slug":"1522","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=1522","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Tony Blair<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It is interesting to see (and hear) Tony Blair pooping up on the media here there and everywhere all of a sudden. According to his own report there is about to be a breakthrough over the Gaza blockade through a deal he has brokered. If this is so it is very good news. Negotiating conclusions to historic enmities is his greatest strength.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I wonder if we heard and saw little of Blair before, because of sensitivities about the response from the previous occupant of \u00a0No 10. Or could it be that now that\u00a0Labour is in opposition he feels free to take a higher profile? \u00a0Then again perhaps as\u00a0Chilcot\u00a0progresses he thinks he needs to stack up some Brownie points. Just in case.<\/p>\n<p>But anything that improves the situation between Israel and the Palestinians is more than worthwhile. Tony Bair should now\u00a0concentrate on this issue\u00a0above everything. I believe\u00a0his job is unpaid. No matter. Most everything else he does is overpaid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tony Blair It is interesting to see (and hear) Tony Blair pooping up on the media here there and everywhere all of a sudden. According to his own report there is about to be a breakthrough over the Gaza blockade through a deal he has brokered. If this is so it is very good news. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-malcolm-blair-robinson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1522"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1528,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1522\/revisions\/1528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}