{"id":42274,"date":"2014-01-27T02:00:34","date_gmt":"2014-01-27T02:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/time_south_sudan_faces_an_uphill_struggle_for_a_longer-term_peace\/"},"modified":"2014-01-27T02:00:34","modified_gmt":"2014-01-27T02:00:34","slug":"time_south_sudan_faces_an_uphill_struggle_for_a_longer-term_peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=42274","title":{"rendered":"(Time) South Sudan Faces An Uphill Struggle for a Longer-Term Peace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The temporary truce signed on Thursday by South Sudanese politicians may have halted hostilities that, according to United Nations and humanitarian estimates, have resulted in the deaths of more than 10,000 people \u201d\u201c and displaced half a million more \u201d\u201csince fighting began in December, but a sustainable peace remains far off, diplomats and experts say. \u201cThe country can fall apart; it\u2019s sort of half unglued now. Even if there\u2019s a ceasefire, who knows if that\u2019s going to stick as it doesn\u2019t resolve any the underlining problems,\u201d\u009d said Tom McDonald, who worked on Sudan issues as U.S. ambassador to Zimbabwe during the Clinton presidency. \u201cA lot is at stake because we have invested time and diplomatic capital and lots of money there to stand up this country.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/world.time.com\/2014\/01\/24\/south-sudan-faces-uphill-struggle-for-a-longer-term-peace\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The temporary truce signed on Thursday by South Sudanese politicians may have halted hostilities that, according to United Nations and humanitarian estimates, have resulted in the deaths of more than 10,000 people \u201d\u201c and displaced half a million more \u201d\u201csince<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=42274\">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":[39,40,50,664,202,144,133,151,346,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-south-sudan","category-africa","category-foreign-relations","category-history","category-politics-in-general","category-sudan","category-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42274","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=42274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42274\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}