{"id":3212,"date":"2011-09-07T19:09:13","date_gmt":"2011-09-07T18:09:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raymondcook.net\/blog\/?p=3212"},"modified":"2011-09-08T22:31:14","modified_gmt":"2011-09-08T21:31:14","slug":"well-not-much-happened-then-in-last-two-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raymondcook.net\/blog\/index.php\/2011\/09\/07\/well-not-much-happened-then-in-last-two-months\/","title":{"rendered":"Well, not much happened, then, in last two months?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"tweet_button113\" style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.raymondcook.net\/blog\/index.php\/2011\/09\/07\/well-not-much-happened-then-in-last-two-months\/\" data-text=\"Well, not much happened, then, in last two months? - Ray Cook - As I See It\" data-count=\"horizontal\" data-lang=\"en\" data-via=\"tweetbutton\"  data-related=\"coderplus:Wordpress Tips and more.\"><\/a><\/div><p>Yes, I&#8217;m back.<\/p>\n<p>So not much happened whilst I was on my rest then? What did you say?<\/p>\n<p>Ah, ok:<\/p>\n<p>Palmer Report on the Mavi Marmara<\/p>\n<p>Turkey and Israel spat<\/p>\n<p>Terror attack near Eilat<\/p>\n<p>English riots<\/p>\n<p>Gaddafi ouster<\/p>\n<p>England slaughter India at cricket (you can&#8217;t get more earth-shattering than that)<\/p>\n<p>And on a personal note, I have been concentrating on Twitter and doubled my followers.<\/p>\n<p>I have had a brief, but somewhat vituperative, exchange with Yvonne Ridley on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and my elder son made Aliya.<\/p>\n<p>So, as I said,\u00a0not a lot been happening, then.<\/p>\n<p>But before I get hooked on this year&#8217;s Strictly Come Dancing and find out what Sir John Major found so attractive in Edwina Currie, I&#8217;d better get back to blogging.<\/p>\n<p>So much negative news and worrying developments in Israel (I must get used to NOT putting hashtags in front of keywords after using Twitter for so long) that I thought my first blog posts would be about some inspiring <em>positive<\/em> stories from Israel.<\/p>\n<p>So stay tuned. Cookie is back and will be reviewing and opining on things Israeli, Zionist and Middle Eastern as I have been doing for the last two and a half years.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: How could I forget the interrupted IPO concert at the Royal Albert Hall!<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE 2: And phone hacking and the Murdochs!! Like I said, a quiet 2 months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"tweet_button113\" style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.raymondcook.net\/blog\/index.php\/2011\/09\/07\/well-not-much-happened-then-in-last-two-months\/\" data-text=\"Well, not much happened, then, in last two months? - Ray Cook - As I See It\" data-count=\"horizontal\" data-lang=\"en\" data-via=\"tweetbutton\"  data-related=\"coderplus:Wordpress Tips and more.\"><\/a><\/div><p>Yes, I&#8217;m back. So not much happened whilst I was on my rest then? What did you say? Ah, ok: Palmer Report on the Mavi Marmara Turkey and Israel spat Terror attack near Eilat English riots Gaddafi ouster England slaughter India at cricket (you can&#8217;t get more earth-shattering than that) And on a personal note, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4,952],"class_list":["post-3212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-israel","tag-ray-cook","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raymondcook.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raymondcook.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raymondcook.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raymondcook.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raymondcook.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3212"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.raymondcook.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3217,"href":"https:\/\/www.raymondcook.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3212\/revisions\/3217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raymondcook.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raymondcook.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raymondcook.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}