{"id":313172,"date":"2026-02-16T12:00:44","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T12:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=313172"},"modified":"2026-02-12T20:02:48","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T20:02:48","slug":"cat-mouse-deadly-game-of-rotten-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2026\/02\/cat-mouse-deadly-game-of-rotten-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"Cat &#038; Mouse Deadly Game of Rotten Politics\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Uncle Sam: The Evil Empire of the West<\/em><\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/us-embargo-cuba-evil-empire-of-the-west.webp\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-313173\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/us-embargo-cuba-evil-empire-of-the-west.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"309\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/us-embargo-cuba-evil-empire-of-the-west.webp 768w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/us-embargo-cuba-evil-empire-of-the-west-300x169.webp 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Trump, Cal\u00edgula, Nero, Genghis Khan, Vlad Tepes the Impaler, Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin\u2026\u00a0 Ring any bells?<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uncle Sam: The Evil Empire of the West<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":182057,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[213],"tags":[1473,530,1337,3281,923,2200],"class_list":["post-313172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-food-for-thought","tag-blockade","tag-cuba","tag-embargo","tag-evil-empire","tag-sanctions","tag-us-empire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313172","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=313172"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":313174,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313172\/revisions\/313174"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}