{"id":156,"date":"2007-10-02T06:40:57","date_gmt":"2007-10-02T11:40:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.168.1.99:8888\/blog\/2007\/10\/02\/1191325257025.html"},"modified":"2007-10-02T06:40:57","modified_gmt":"2007-10-02T11:40:57","slug":"blogentry-george-w-bush-to-meet-the-dalai-lama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/?p=156","title":{"rendered":"[BlogEntry] George W. Bush To Meet The Dalai Lama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=&#034;http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/main.jhtml?xml=\/news\/2007\/09\/29\/wlama129.xml&#034;>George W. Bush to meet with the Dalai Lama<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ok, now this is interesting.&nbsp; In an apparent first, a US president is going to meet with His Holiness the Dalai Lama where he will be presented with the Congressional Gold Medal (His Holiness, not Bush).&nbsp; This is sure to piss off China, who basically runs around the world behind the Dalai Lama saying &#034;No more toys with lead paint for you if you invite him to tea.&nbsp; We don&#039;t like him.&#034;&nbsp; Bonus points for the spokeswoman who said that such a move &#034;hurts the feelings of the Chinese people.&#034;&nbsp; I wonder if in a statement like that she&#039;s counting the Tibetans as Chinese people?&nbsp; Because I&#039;d be willing to bet they&#039;re very happy when their leader (both politically and spiritually) gets a little respect.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps they can talk about Burma while they&#039;re at it?<\/p>\n<p>Seriously, if Bush manages to have a respectful meeting with the man, if it&#039;s more than just a photo opportunity, and Bush manages not to say anything stupid, I will be very pleased.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=&#034;wlWriterSmartContent&#034; id=&#034;0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:37b0b01f-ad4f-4dc5-a192-9ccfcecb79e5&#034; contenteditable=&#034;false&#034; style=&#034;padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-top: 0px&#034;>Technorati tags: <a href=&#034;http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/news&#034; rel=&#034;tag&#034;>news<\/a>, <a href=&#034;http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Bush&#034; rel=&#034;tag&#034;>Bush<\/a>, <a href=&#034;http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Dalai%20Lama&#034; rel=&#034;tag&#034;>Dalai Lama<\/a>, <a href=&#034;http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Buddhism&#034; rel=&#034;tag&#034;>Buddhism<\/a>, <a href=&#034;http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Tibet&#034; rel=&#034;tag&#034;>Tibet<\/a>, <a href=&#034;http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Burma&#034; rel=&#034;tag&#034;>Burma<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>George W. Bush to meet with the Dalai Lama Ok, now this is interesting.&nbsp; In an apparent first, a US president is going to meet with His Holiness the Dalai Lama where he will be presented with the Congressional Gold Medal (His Holiness, not Bush).&nbsp; This is sure to piss off China, who basically runs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}