{"id":706,"date":"2004-11-18T00:35:46","date_gmt":"2004-11-18T05:35:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=706"},"modified":"2005-01-14T00:48:26","modified_gmt":"2005-01-14T05:48:26","slug":"be_the_change_y","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2004\/11\/18\/be_the_change_y\/","title":{"rendered":"Be the change you wish to see&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img alt=\"Kashmir\" title=\"Kashmir\" src=\"http:\/\/anna.typepad.com\/photos\/uncategorized\/kashmir.jpg\" border=\"0\" style=\"float: right; margin: 0px 0px 5px 5px;\" \/>\nAll we are sayyyyying&#8230;is give peas a chance:<\/p>\n\n<blockquote>A thousand Indian troops withdrew from the disputed territory of Kashmir yesterday in a goodwill gesture aimed at fostering a new peace in the province. <\/blockquote>\n\n<blockquote>The move was timed to coincide with a visit to Kashmir by Dr Manmohan Singh, India&#8217;s prime minister, and is the latest in a series of confidence-building initiatives between India and Pakistan.<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Through a bullet-proof screen in Srinagar, India&#8217;s PM stated that he &#8220;extended the hand of friendship&#8221; to Pakistan.<\/p>\n\n<blockquote>&#8230;Last month Pakistan&#8217;s president Gen Pervaiz Musharraf seized the initiative on Kashmir by floating a plan to divide and demilitarise the region, calling on both sides to take radical steps towards a settlement.<\/blockquote>\n\n<blockquote>Initially India responded coolly, but has reciprocated in kind with a symbolic reduction in troop numbers.<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>via the <a href=\" http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/main.jhtml?xml=\/news\/2004\/11\/18\/wkash18.xml&#038;sSheet=\/news\/2004\/11\/18\/ixworld.html\">telegraph<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All we are sayyyyying&#8230;is give peas a chance: A thousand Indian troops withdrew from the disputed territory of Kashmir yesterday in a goodwill gesture aimed at fostering a new peace in the province. The move was timed to coincide with &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2004\/11\/18\/be_the_change_y\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}