{"id":24411,"date":"2011-02-07T04:20:44","date_gmt":"2011-02-07T04:20:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/thomas_friedman-china_twitter_and_20-year-olds_vs-_the_pyramids\/"},"modified":"2011-02-07T04:20:44","modified_gmt":"2011-02-07T04:20:44","slug":"thomas_friedman-china_twitter_and_20-year-olds_vs-_the_pyramids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=24411","title":{"rendered":"Thomas Friedman&#8211;China, Twitter and 20-Year-Olds vs. the Pyramids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anyone who\u2019s long followed the Middle East knows that the six most dangerous words after any cataclysmic event in this region are: \u201cThings will never be the same.\u201d\u009d After all, this region absorbed the fall of the Berlin Wall and the rise of Google without a ripple.<\/p>\n<p>But traveling through Israel, the West Bank and Jordan to measure the shock waves from Egypt, I\u2019m convinced that the forces that were upholding the status quo here for so long \u201d\u201d oil, autocracy, the distraction of Israel, and a fear of the chaos that could come with change \u201d\u201d have finally met an engine of change that is even more powerful: China, Twitter and 20-year-olds.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/02\/06\/opinion\/06friedman.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anyone who\u2019s long followed the Middle East knows that the six most dangerous words after any cataclysmic event in this region are: \u201cThings will never be the same.\u201d\u009d After all, this region absorbed the fall of the Berlin Wall and<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=24411\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,50,433,201,94,502,560,558,203,95,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-social-networking","category-asia","category-blogging-the-internet","category-china","category-egypt","category-jordan","category-middle-east","category-science-technology","category-young-adults"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24411\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}