{"id":1560,"date":"2008-02-17T23:43:49","date_gmt":"2008-02-17T15:43:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=1560"},"modified":"2009-03-09T21:39:55","modified_gmt":"2009-03-09T13:39:55","slug":"1555-of-kosovo-is-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=1560","title":{"rendered":"[1555] Of Kosovo is free"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The final step of Balkanization is now done. Kosovo has declared its independence:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Kosovo on Sunday declared its independence from an angry and anxious Serbia in the final fallout from the conflict-strewn breakup of the former Yugoslavia.<\/p>\n<p>Tens of thousands of flag waving people packed the capital, Pristina, as the Kosovo parliament voted a declaration of independence which insisted that the world&#8217;s newest state would be &#8220;dedicated to peace and stability.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The parliament also approved a new flag for the landlocked state of about two million people. [<em><a href=\"http:\/\/news.theage.com.au\/kosovo-declares-independence\/20080218-1sph.html\" target=\"_blank\">Kosovo declares independence<\/a><\/em>. The Age. February 17 2008]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I have blogged before how while I support a free Kosovo, I only do so <a href=\"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=1493\" target=\"_blank\">with reservation<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The final step of Balkanization is now done. Kosovo has declared its independence: Kosovo on Sunday declared its independence from an angry and anxious Serbia in the final fallout from the conflict-strewn breakup of the former Yugoslavia. Tens of thousands of flag waving people packed the capital, Pristina, as the Kosovo parliament voted a declaration [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[183],"class_list":["post-1560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-kosovo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1560","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=1560"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2899,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1560\/revisions\/2899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}