{"id":115175,"date":"2018-07-30T12:00:03","date_gmt":"2018-07-30T11:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=115175"},"modified":"2018-07-22T12:05:13","modified_gmt":"2018-07-22T11:05:13","slug":"the-middle-easts-cold-war-explained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2018\/07\/the-middle-easts-cold-war-explained\/","title":{"rendered":"The Middle East&#8217;s Cold War, Explained"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><em>How two feuding countries are tearing apart the Middle East.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\">The Saudis and Iranians have never actually declared war on each other. Instead, they fight indirectly by supporting opposing sides in other countries and inciting conflicts. This is known as proxy warfare. And it\u2019s had a devastating effect on the region. Countries, especially poor ones, can\u2019t function if there are larger countries pulling strings within their borders. And that\u2019s exactly what&#8217;s happening in the Middle East. The Saudi-Iranian rivalry has become a fight over influence, and the whole region is a battlefield.<\/p>\n<p>httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=veMFCFyOwFI<br \/>\n<em>Vox.com is a news website that helps you cut through the noise and understand what&#8217;s really driving the events in the headlines.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How two feuding countries are tearing apart the Middle East. The Saudis and Iranians have never actually declared war on each other.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[168],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-depth-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115175\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}