{"id":527,"date":"2012-02-22T13:17:54","date_gmt":"2012-02-22T13:17:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.astarmathsandphysics.com\/tutor_profiles\/paul_smith\/paul_smiths_blog\/?p=527"},"modified":"2012-02-22T13:17:54","modified_gmt":"2012-02-22T13:17:54","slug":"why-dont-western-governments-do-something-in-syria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/astarmathsandphysics.com\/blog\/paulsmith\/2012\/02\/why-dont-western-governments-do-something-in-syria\/","title":{"rendered":"Why don&#8217;t western governments do something in Syria?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Because they are yellow, cowards, afraid of the bills they will end up paying.<br \/>\nObama is not only the first black president, he is also the first yellow one. Yellow through and through.<br \/>\nCameron &#8211; the British pm, in case you don&#8217;t know &#8211; is so mired in u turns he can&#8217;t stand up and face north.<br \/>\nLet&#8217;s send the Greeks to die in Syria. If they don&#8217;t all die somewhere soon they end up on my doorstep looking through my bins for rotten catfood.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because they are yellow, cowards, afraid of the bills they will end up paying. Obama is not only the first black president, he is also the first yellow one. Yellow through and through. Cameron &#8211; the British pm, in case &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/astarmathsandphysics.com\/blog\/paulsmith\/2012\/02\/why-dont-western-governments-do-something-in-syria\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3Wm4j-8v","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2297,"url":"https:\/\/astarmathsandphysics.com\/blog\/paulsmith\/2015\/11\/get-used-to-tragedy\/","url_meta":{"origin":527,"position":0},"title":"Get Used to Tragedy","author":"taxicle","date":"November 14, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Over 100 people die in suicide shootings in France. 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