{"id":47370,"date":"2014-12-14T23:31:04","date_gmt":"2014-12-14T23:31:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/the_price_of_oil_being_used_as_a_weapon_by_the_saudis_in_the_sunni_shia_bat\/"},"modified":"2014-12-14T23:31:04","modified_gmt":"2014-12-14T23:31:04","slug":"the_price_of_oil_being_used_as_a_weapon_by_the_saudis_in_the_sunni_shia_bat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=47370","title":{"rendered":"The Price of Oil Being used As A Weapon by the Saudis in the Sunni\/Shia battle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By October, it was becoming clear to us and others that Saudi Arabia and its Gulf Emirate allies could not afford to continue petro-pricing business as usual with sectarian wars exploding out of control, threatening the entire region.<\/p>\n<p>In particular, they were infuriated that the Shia regime in Syria was being propped up by Iran and Russia. Moreover, Iran seemed to be getting closer to becoming a nuclear power with each month. Amid the chaos, the Islamic State terrorists had suddenly become a formidable challenge to the entire region, and they were getting increasing revenues from oil properties they had seized.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ritholtz.com\/blog\/2014\/12\/oil-as-a-weapon\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By October, it was becoming clear to us and others that Saudi Arabia and its Gulf Emirate allies could not afford to continue petro-pricing business as usual with sectarian wars exploding out of control, threatening the entire region. In particular,<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=47370\">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":[39,40,50,42,140,168,200,144,119,564,426,203,155,151,479,559,556,148,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-energy-natural-resources","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-europe","category-foreign-relations","category-globalization","category-iran","category-islam","category-middle-east","category-other-faiths","category-politics-in-general","category-russia","category-saudi-arabia","category-syria","category-terrorism","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47370","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=47370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47370\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}