{"id":1506,"date":"2008-01-05T00:24:21","date_gmt":"2008-01-04T16:24:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=1506"},"modified":"2009-03-16T17:30:09","modified_gmt":"2009-03-16T09:30:09","slug":"1501-of-the-former-turkish-province-of-greece","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=1506","title":{"rendered":"[1501] Of the Former Turkish Province of Greece"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Too good to let it pass peacefully:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>SIR \u2014 The problem of Greece&#8217;s refusal to agree to the name of \u201dMacedonia\u201d\u009d for its northern neighbour is easily solved (\u201dThe game of the name\u201d\u009d, December 8th). Let Macedonia be admitted to various international bodies under the title of \u201dThe Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia\u201d\u009d, as Greece demands, but on condition that Greece itself be reseated under the name \u201dThe Former Turkish Province of Greece\u201d\u009d. An additional advantage of this solution would be that the two countries would sit side-by-side in the United Nations, thereby facilitating constructive private discussions, or fisticuffs according to the mood of the day.<\/p>\n<p>David Brewer<\/p>\n<p>Puslinch, Canada [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/displaystory.cfm?story_id=10423886&amp;fsrc=RSS\" target=\"_blank\"><em>On urban populations, secularism, international law, cocaine, Macedonia, computers, Alaska<\/em><\/a>. The Economist. January 3 2008]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Witty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Too good to let it pass peacefully: SIR \u2014 The problem of Greece&#8217;s refusal to agree to the name of \u201dMacedonia\u201d\u009d for its northern neighbour is easily solved (\u201dThe game of the name\u201d\u009d, December 8th). Let Macedonia be admitted to various international bodies under the title of \u201dThe Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia\u201d\u009d, as Greece [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,8],"tags":[349,206],"class_list":["post-1506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-politics-government","tag-macedonia","tag-the-economist"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1506"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3093,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1506\/revisions\/3093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}