{"id":639,"date":"2008-10-12T15:19:51","date_gmt":"2008-10-12T14:19:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/?p=639"},"modified":"2008-10-12T15:19:51","modified_gmt":"2008-10-12T14:19:51","slug":"ireland-finland-its-all-the-same","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/?p=639","title":{"rendered":"Ireland, Finland, it&#039;s all the same"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At least according to this Xinhua headline: <a href=\"http:\/\/news.xinhuanet.com\/english\/2008-10\/12\/content_10183565.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Kenya&#8217;s Nobel laureate lauds ex-Ireland leader<\/a>. The Nobel peace prize had been awarded to the former president of Finland for his efforts from Europe to the Middle East to Asia.<\/p>\n<p>But hey, what&#8217;s the difference between nations? I speak with the experience of a man who was once asked, during the immigration procedure, if he should be listed as coming from Iceland. &#8220;Iceland is same as Ireland, yes?&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least according to this Xinhua headline: Kenya&#8217;s Nobel laureate lauds ex-Ireland leader. The Nobel peace prize had been awarded to the former president of Finland for his efforts from Europe to the Middle East to Asia. But hey, what&#8217;s the difference between nations? I speak with the experience of a man who was once [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[32,37,50],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}