{"id":1825,"date":"2006-11-30T07:43:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-30T13:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/?p=1825"},"modified":"2006-11-30T07:43:00","modified_gmt":"2006-11-30T13:43:00","slug":"no-ipods-for-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/no-ipods-for-you\/","title":{"rendered":"No iPods for you!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A co-worker e-mailed this&#8230;<br \/>\nFrom <a href=\"http:\/\/i.a.cnn.net\/cnn\/2006\/WORLD\/asiapcf\/11\/29\/nkorea.sanctions.ap\/story.kim.wine.file.ap.jpg\n\">CNN and AP<\/A>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Bush administration wants North Korea&#8217;s attention, so like a scolding parent, it&#8217;s trying to make it tougher for that country&#8217;s eccentric leader to buy iPods, plasma televisions and Segway electric scooters.<br \/>\nThe U.S. government&#8217;s first-ever effort to use trade sanctions to personally aggravate a foreign president expressly targets items believed to be favored by Kim Jong Il or presented by him as gifts to the roughly 600 loyalist families who run his communist nation.<br \/>\nKim, who engineered a secret nuclear weapons program, has other options for obtaining the high-end consumer electronics and other items he wants.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>At least he can still <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Soup_Nazi\">have his soup<\/A>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A co-worker e-mailed this&#8230; From CNN and AP: The Bush administration wants North Korea&#8217;s attention, so like a scolding parent, it&#8217;s trying to make it tougher for that country&#8217;s eccentric leader to buy iPods, plasma televisions and Segway electric scooters. The U.S. government&#8217;s first-ever effort to use trade sanctions to personally aggravate a foreign president &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/no-ipods-for-you\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">No iPods for you!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pEnSo-tr","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1825\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}