{"id":5170,"date":"2008-03-19T13:54:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-19T13:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/calls_mount_for_olympic_ceremony_boycott\/"},"modified":"2008-03-19T13:54:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-19T13:54:00","slug":"calls_mount_for_olympic_ceremony_boycott","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=5170","title":{"rendered":"Calls Mount for Olympic Ceremony Boycott"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Moves to punish China over its handling of violence in Tibet gained momentum Tuesday, with a novel suggestion for a mini-boycott of the Beijing Olympics by VIPs at the opening ceremony.<\/p>\n<p>Such a protest by world leaders would be a huge slap in the face for China&#8217;s Communist leadership.<\/p>\n<p>France&#8217;s outspoken foreign minister, former humanitarian campaigner Bernard Kouchner, said the idea &#8220;is interesting.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Kouchner said he wants to discuss it with other foreign ministers from the 27-nation European Union next week. His comments opened a crack in what until now had been solid opposition to a full boycott, a stance that Kouchner said remains the official government position.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/apnews.myway.com\/article\/20080318\/D8VG3QDG0.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Moves to punish China over its handling of violence in Tibet gained momentum Tuesday, with a novel suggestion for a mini-boycott of the Beijing Olympics by VIPs at the opening ceremony. Such a protest by world leaders would be a<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=5170\">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":[39,50,201,502,128],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-asia","category-china","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5170","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=5170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5170\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}