{"id":167289,"date":"2020-08-24T12:00:54","date_gmt":"2020-08-24T11:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=167289"},"modified":"2020-08-21T09:11:54","modified_gmt":"2020-08-21T08:11:54","slug":"modis-brutal-treatment-of-kashmir-exposes-his-tactics-and-their-flaws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2020\/08\/modis-brutal-treatment-of-kashmir-exposes-his-tactics-and-their-flaws\/","title":{"rendered":"Modi&#8217;s Brutal Treatment of Kashmir Exposes His Tactics \u2013 And Their Flaws"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><em>A year after a ferocious crackdown, I see the region facing nothing less than cultural erasure.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"u-responsive-ratio\"><picture><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"maxed responsive-img aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/540e1ed3bf10a3a83c3690c2d4fff12ca14852cb\/0_14_2200_1320\/master\/2200.jpg?width=300&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=2dc386ec8bf96a1cfad7c7f489803c8e\" alt=\"Narendra Modi at the foundation-laying ceremony for the Ram Mandir temple in Uttar Pradesh.\" \/> <\/picture><\/div>\n<header class=\"content__head content__head--article tonal__head tonal__head--tone-comment\n    \"><\/p>\n<figure id=\"img-1\" class=\"media-primary media-content ()  \" data-component=\"image\" data-media-id=\"540e1ed3bf10a3a83c3690c2d4fff12ca14852cb\"><figcaption class=\"caption caption--main caption--img\">\u2018Why did Narendra Modi decide to inaugurate the Ram Mandir now?\u2019<br \/>\nPhotograph: India Press Information Bureau Handout\/EPA<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"content__article-body from-content-api js-article__body\" data-test-id=\"article-review-body\">\n<p><span class=\"drop-cap\"><span class=\"drop-cap__inner\"><em>5 Aug 2020 &#8211;<\/em> A<\/span><\/span>t midnight on 4 August 2019, phones in Kashmir went dead and internet connections were cut. On 5 August 2019, a year ago today, 7 million people were locked into their homes under a strict military curfew. Up to <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2019\/sep\/12\/son-kashmir-disappeared-india-truth-fate-siege\" class=\"u-underline\"  data-link-name=\"in body link\">10,000 people<\/a>, from young children and teenage stone pelters to former chief ministers and major pro-India politicians, were arrested and put into preventive detention, where many of them still remain. On 6 August, a bill was passed in parliament stripping the state of Jammu and Kashmir of its autonomy and <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/04\/kashmir-curfew-brought-in-as-region-marks-one-year-since-special-status-revoked\" class=\"u-underline\"  data-link-name=\"in body link\">special status<\/a> enshrined in the Indian constitution. It was stripped of statehood, downgraded into two union territories, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/oct\/31\/india-strips-kashmir-of-special-status-and-divides-it-in-two\" class=\"u-underline\"  data-link-name=\"in body link\">Ladakh, and Jammu and Kashmir<\/a>. Ladakh would have no legislature and would be governed directly by New Delhi.<\/p>\n<p>The problem of <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/kashmir\" class=\"u-underline\"  data-link-name=\"auto-linked-tag\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\">Kashmir<\/a>, we were told, had been finally solved once and for all. In other words, Kashmir\u2019s decades-long struggle for self-determination, which has cost tens of thousands of lives of soldiers, militants and civilians, thousands of enforced \u201cdisappearances\u201d and cruelly tortured bodies \u2013 was over.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"element element-pullquote element--supporting\"><\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"element element-pullquote element--supporting\">\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"pullquote-paragraph\"><em><strong>Lockdown or no lockdown, as I write, I can sense the very air trembling in anticipation of the historic moment.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<p>In India\u2019s parliament, home minister Amit Shah <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.opindia.com\/2019\/08\/jammu-and-kashmir-includes-pok-and-aksai-chin-too-will-lay-down-life-for-it-home-minister-amit-shah-roars-in-parliament\/\" class=\"u-underline\"  data-link-name=\"in body link\">went further<\/a>. He said he was prepared to lay down his life to take over the territories of what India calls Pakistan Occupied Kashmir (POK) and what Kashmiris call Azad Kashmir, as well as the frontier provinces of Gilgit-Baltistan. He also threw in Aksai Chin, once part of the erstwhile kingdom of Jammu and Kashmir, now a part of China. He was wading into dangerous territory, literally as well as figuratively. The borders he was talking about lie between three nuclear powers. Amid the unseemly celebrations on India\u2019s streets, the extra wattage generated by Kashmir\u2019s humiliation intensified the glow of prime minister Narendra Modi\u2019s already god-like halo. Provocatively, the Indian meteorological department began to include Gilgit-Baltistan in its weather reports. Few of us in India paid attention to the Chinese government when it urged India to \u201cbe cautious in its words and deeds on the border issue\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>In the year that has gone by, the struggle in Kashmir has by no means ended. In just the past few months media reports say that<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/thewire.in\/politics\/narendra-modi-kashmir-master-stroke\" class=\"u-underline\"  data-link-name=\"in body link\"> 34 soldiers, 154 militants and 17 civilians have been killed.<\/a> A world traumatised by coronavirus has understandably paid no attention to what the Indian government has done to the people of Kashmir. The curfew and communication siege, and everything else that such a siege entails (no access to doctors, hospitals, work, no business, no school, no contact with loved ones), lasted for months. Even the US didn\u2019t do this during its war against Iraq.<\/p>\n<p>Just a few months of Covid lockdown, without a military curfew or communications siege, has brought the world to its knees and hundreds of millions to the limits of their endurance and sanity. Think of Kashmir under the densest military deployment in the world. On top of the suffering coronavirus has laid on you, add a maze of barbed wire on your streets, soldiers breaking into your homes, beating the men and abusing the women, destroying your food stocks, amplifying the cries of <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/thewire.in\/rights\/kashmir-fact-finding\" class=\"u-underline\"  data-link-name=\"in body link\">humans being tortured<\/a> on public address systems.<\/p>\n<p>Add to this a judicial system \u2013 including the supreme court of India \u2013 that has for a whole year allowed the internet siege to continue and ignored the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/jklpp.org\/kashmir-reading-room-report-aug-2019-aug-2020\/\" class=\"u-underline\"  data-link-name=\"in body link\">600 habeas corpus petitions<\/a> by distraught people seeking the whereabouts of their family members. Add further a new <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/programmes\/thestream\/2020\/06\/domicile-law-kashmir-200610143308394.html\" class=\"u-underline\"  data-link-name=\"in body link\">domicile <\/a><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/programmes\/thestream\/2020\/06\/domicile-law-kashmir-200610143308394.html\" class=\"u-underline\"  data-link-name=\"in body link\">law<\/a> that opens the floodgates by allowing Indians a right of residence in Kashmir. The precious state subject certificates of Kashmiris are now legally void except as backup evidence to bolster their applications to the Indian government for domicile status in their own homeland. Those whose applications are rejected can be denied residency and shipped out. What Kashmir faces is nothing less than cultural erasure.<\/p>\n<p>Kashmir\u2019s new domicile law is a relative of India\u2019s new blatantly anti-Muslim <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/dec\/18\/india-clamps-down-against-citizenship-law-protests\" class=\"u-underline\"  data-link-name=\"in body link\">Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA)<\/a> passed in December 2019 and the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2019\/nov\/20\/race-to-stop-2-million-becoming-stateless-as-the-clock-starts-ticking-in-assam\" class=\"u-underline\"  data-link-name=\"in body link\">National Register of Citizens (NRC)<\/a> that is supposed to detect \u201cBangladeshi infiltrators\u201d (Muslim of course) whom the home minister has called \u201c<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/sep\/09\/not-a-single-illegal-immigrant-will-stay-says-india-after-register-excludes-millions\" class=\"u-underline\"  data-link-name=\"in body link\">termites<\/a>\u201d. In the state of Assam, the NRC has already wreaked havoc. Millions have been struck off the citizens register. While many countries are dealing with a refugee crisis, the Indian government is turning citizens into refugees, fuelling a crisis of statelessness on an unimaginable scale.<\/p>\n<p>The CAA, NRC and Kashmir\u2019s new domicile law require even bona fide citizens to produce a set of documents approved by the state in order to be granted citizenship. (The Nuremberg laws passed by the Nazi party in 1935 decreed that only those citizens who could provide legacy papers approved by the Third Reich were eligible for German citizenship.)<\/p>\n<p>What should all this be called? A war crime? Or a crime against humanity?<\/p>\n<aside class=\"element element-rich-link element--thumbnail element-rich-link--upgraded\" data-component=\"rich-link\" data-link-name=\"rich-link-2 | 1\">\n<div class=\"rich-link tone-feature--item rich-link--pillar-news\">\n<div class=\"rich-link__container\">\n<div class=\"rich-link__image-container u-responsive-ratio\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"rich-link__header\">\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"rich-link__title\"><em><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/05\/our-identity-has-been-robbed-life-in-kashmir-after-a-year-of-crisis\" class=\"rich-link__link\"> &#8216;<\/a><a >Our identity has been robbed&#8217;: life in Kashmir after a year of crisis<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>And what should the collusion of institutions and the celebrations on the streets of <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/india\" class=\"u-underline\"  data-link-name=\"auto-linked-tag\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\">India<\/a> be called? Democracy?<\/p>\n<p>A year down the line, these celebrations over Kashmir are distinctly muted. For good reason. We have a dragon on our doorstep and it isn\u2019t happy. On 17 June 2020, we awoke to the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/16\/india-says-soldiers-killed-on-disputed-himalayan-border-with-china\" class=\"u-underline\"  data-link-name=\"in body link\">horrifying news<\/a> that 20 Indian soldiers including a colonel had been brutally killed by the Chinese People\u2019s Liberation Army (PLA) in the icy reaches of the remote Galwan Valley on the Ladakh border. Over the next few days reports in sections of the Indian press suggested that there had been several points of ingress. Army veterans and respected defence correspondents have said that the PLA has occupied hundreds of square kilometres of what India considers to be its territory. Was it just naked aggression as portrayed by the Indian media? Or have the Chinese moved to protect what they see as their vital interests \u2013 a road through the high mountains of Aksai Chin and a trade route through Pakistan Occupied\/Azad Kashmir? Both are under threat, if the belligerent statements made by India\u2019s home minister were to be taken seriously, and how can they not be?<\/p>\n<p>For a ferociously nationalist government such as ours to concede what it thinks of as sovereign territory has to be its worst nightmare. It cannot be countenanced. But what can be done? A simple solution was found. Just days after the Galwan Valley tragedy, Modi <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/03\/our-pastures-have-been-taken-india-china-himalayan-land-grab?utm_term=Autofeed&amp;utm_query_empty&amp;utm_campaign=NewsbyLarry&amp;utm_medium=Social&amp;utm_query_whitespace&amp;utm_Echobox=Echobox&amp;utm_source=Facebook\" class=\"u-underline\"  data-link-name=\"in body link\">addressed the nation<\/a>. \u201cNot an inch of land has been occupied by anyone,\u201d he said, \u201cno one has entered our borders\u201d and \u201cnone of our posts have been occupied by anyone\u201d. Modi\u2019s critics fell about laughing. The Chinese government was quick to welcome his statement, because that\u2019s what they were saying, too. But Modi\u2019s statement isn\u2019t as stupid as it sounds. While army commanders of both countries are discussing withdrawal and the \u201cdisengagement\u201d of troops and the social media is full of jokes about the art of exiting without entering, and while the Chinese continue to hold territory they claim to be their own, to the vast, uninformed majority of India\u2019s population, Modi has won. It was on TV. And who\u2019s to say which is more important? TV or territory?<\/p>\n<p>Whichever way you slice it, in the long-term, India now requires a battle-ready army on two fronts \u2013 the western frontier with Pakistan and the eastern frontier with <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/china\" class=\"u-underline\"  data-link-name=\"auto-linked-tag\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\">China<\/a>. In addition, the government\u2019s hubris has alienated its neighbours Nepal and Bangladesh. We have been reduced to boasting that in the event of war, the US \u2013 reeling from its own crises \u2013 will come to India\u2019s rescue. Really? Like it rescued the Kurds in Syria and Iraq? Like it rescued the Afghans from the Soviets? Or the South Vietnamese from the North Vietnamese?<\/p>\n<p>Last night a Kashmiri friend messaged me: \u201cWill India, Pakistan and China fight over our skies without seeing us?\u201d It\u2019s not an unlikely scenario. None of these countries is morally superior or more humane than the other. None of them is in this for the greater good of humanity.<\/p>\n<p>But even without an official war, for India to keep a standing army on the Ladakh border, supplied and equipped for high-altitude warfare, for it to even remotely match China\u2019s arsenal, India\u2019s defence budget would probably have to double or triple in size. Even that won\u2019t be enough. It will come as a huge blow to an economy that was already in steep decline (with unemployment at a <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/williampesek\/2020\/01\/10\/india-has-worst-economy-in-42-years-is-prime-minister-modi-watching\/\" class=\"u-underline\"  data-link-name=\"in body link\">45-year high<\/a>) <em>before<\/em> the Covid-19 lockdown, and is now predicted to shrink between <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/news\/economy\/finance\/indias-gdp-growth-to-lose-momentum-from-third-quarter-oxford-economics\/articleshow\/77221478.cms\" class=\"u-underline\"  data-link-name=\"in body link\">3.2 and 9.5%<\/a>. Modi is not doing too well in the early rounds of this game of Chinese chequers.<\/p>\n<p>The first week of August comes with some other milestones, too. Despite the ill-planned, draconian, back-breaking lockdown, despite woefully few tests compared with other countries, confirmed cases of coronavirus in India are now growing at perhaps the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/06\/global-report-india-sees-record-daily-rise-as-capital-opens-giant-covid-19-hospital\" class=\"u-underline\"  data-link-name=\"in body link\">fastest rate<\/a> in the world. Among its victims is our sabre-rattling home minister, who is spending the anniversary in a <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2020\/08\/amit-shah-indian-interior-minister-hospitalised-covid-19-200802132746751.html\" class=\"u-underline\"  data-link-name=\"in body link\">hospital bed<\/a>. Not for him the cures being peddled by the quacks, godmen and members of parliament in his party \u2013 drinking cow urine, a magic potion called <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/india-news\/never-claimed-patanjali-s-coronil-cures-covid-says-acharya-balkrishna\/story-jV0gVGrabgFX9PEzjUQa0O.html\" class=\"u-underline\"  data-link-name=\"in body link\">Coronil<\/a>, blowing conch shells and banging pots and pans, reciting the Hanuman Chalisa, chanting \u201cGo, Corona, Go!\u201d in the flat intonations of a Sanskrit sloka. Oh no. For him the most expensive private hospital <em>and<\/em> the best (allopathic) government doctors on call.<\/p>\n<p>And where will India\u2019s prime minister be?<\/p>\n<p>If Kashmir had really been \u201csolved\u201d once and for all, he would be there to be feted by adoring socially distanced crowds. But Kashmir isn\u2019t solved. It\u2019s shut down again. And Ladakh is almost a battlefront. So, Modi has wisely decided to retreat from those troubled borders to a very safe place to make good another long-standing election promise. By the time you read this, he will, accompanied by prayers from priests and people across the country, as well as the blessings of India\u2019s <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/nov\/09\/ayodhya-verdict-hindus-win-possession-of-site-disputed-by-muslims\" class=\"u-underline\"  data-link-name=\"in body link\">supreme <\/a><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/nov\/09\/ayodhya-verdict-hindus-win-possession-of-site-disputed-by-muslims\" class=\"u-underline\"  data-link-name=\"in body link\">court<\/a>, have laid a silver slab that weighs 40kg as the foundation for the Ram Mandir, a temple that will rise from the ruins of the Babri Masjid, a mosque that was hammered into the dust by Hindu vigilantes led by members of Modi\u2019s Bharatiya Janata party in 1992. It\u2019s been a long journey. Let\u2019s call it a <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2003\/sep\/10\/film.germany\" class=\"u-underline\"  data-link-name=\"in body link\">Triumph of the Will<\/a>.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"element element-rich-link element--thumbnail element-rich-link--upgraded\" data-component=\"rich-link\" data-link-name=\"rich-link-2 | 2\">\n<div class=\"rich-link tone-news--item rich-link--pillar-news\">\n<div class=\"rich-link__container\">\n<div class=\"rich-link__image-container u-responsive-ratio\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"rich-link__header\">\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"rich-link__title\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/04\/kashmir-curfew-brought-in-as-region-marks-one-year-since-special-status-revoked\" ><em><strong> Kashmir curfew brought in as region marks one year since special status revoked<\/strong> <\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"rich-link__read-more\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Lockdown or no lockdown, as I write, I can sense the very air trembling in anticipation of the historic moment. Only the naive or the hopelessly indoctrinated can still believe that hunger and joblessness will lead to revolution \u2013 that temples and monuments cannot feed people. They can. The Ram Mandir is food for millions of starved Hindu souls. The further humiliation of the already humiliated Muslims and other minorities only sharpens the taste of victory on the tongue. How can bread compete?<\/p>\n<p>It would be easy to look at the 365 days between last August and now \u2013 the final \u201cintegration\u201d of Kashmir into India, the passing of the CAA and NRC, and the inauguration of the Ram Mandir \u2013 as the defining period in which India under Modi has formally declared itself a Hindu nation, the dawning of a new era. But declarations can contain unacknowledged defeats. And showy beginnings can contain unforeseen ends. It\u2019s worth remembering that despite Modi\u2019s larger-than-life presence and the BJP\u2019s massive majority in parliament, only 17.2% of India\u2019s population voted for them.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps, as the Chinese suggest, in this matter we should proceed with caution. Think a little. Why did Modi decide to inaugurate the Ram Mandir now? After all it\u2019s not the festivals of Dussehra or Diwali, and the date has no particular relevance in the Ramayana or the Hindu calendar. And there\u2019s a partial lockdown in most parts of India \u2013 many of the priests and policemen preparing and securing the site have already tested positive for Covid. So why now? Is it to rub salt into Kashmir\u2019s wounds, or is it to put balm on India\u2019s? Because, whatever they tell us on TV, there\u2019s been a tectonic shift on the borders. Big plates are moving. The world order is changing. You can\u2019t bully people and act like the top dog in the neighbourhood when you\u2019re not top dog. That\u2019s not a Chinese saying. It\u2019s just common sense.<\/p>\n<p>Could it be that this August anniversary is not actually what it\u2019s being cracked up to be? Could it be instead the little limpet of shame clamped to the soaring cliff of glory?<\/p>\n<p>When and if India, China and Pakistan fight over Kashmir\u2019s skies, the least the rest of us can do is to keep our eyes on its people.<\/p>\n<p><em>_______________________________________________<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Arundhati-Roy1.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-66514\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Arundhati-Roy1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><em>Arundhati Roy, born Nov 24 1961, is an Indian novelist and political activist. She wrote <\/em>The God of Small Things<em>, which won the 1997 Man Booker Prize for fiction,<\/em> <em>and <\/em>The Ministry of Utmost Happiness<em>. A collection of her essays from the past 20 years, <\/em>My Seditious Heart,<em> was recently published by Haymarket Books.<\/em><em> Roy was awarded the Sydney Peace Prize in 2004 and has concentrated on penning down political issues being a critic of neo-imperialism and linked to anti-globalization movements. Roy\u2019s subversive nature has made her accustomed to criticism. <\/em>\u201cEach time I step out, I hear the snicker-snack of knives being sharpened but that\u2019s good. It keeps me sharp\u201d,<em> she said when interviewed by an Indian magazine.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2020\/aug\/05\/modi-brutal-treatment-of-kashmir-exposes-his-tactics-and-their-flaws\" >Go to Original &#8211; theguardian.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At midnight on 4 August 2019, phones in Kashmir went dead and internet connections were cut. On 5 August 2019, a year ago today, 7 million people were locked into their homes under a strict military curfew. Up to 10,000 people, from young children and teenage stone pelters to former chief ministers and major pro-India politicians, were arrested and put into preventive detention, where many of them still remain. On 6 August, a bill was passed in parliament stripping the state of Jammu and Kashmir of its autonomy and special status enshrined in the Indian constitution. It was stripped of statehood, downgraded into two union territories, Ladakh, and Jammu and Kashmir. Ladakh would have no legislature and would be governed directly by New Delhi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":66514,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[180],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-167289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-brics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167289","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=167289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167289\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}