{"id":34639,"date":"2019-11-27T10:58:16","date_gmt":"2019-11-27T10:58:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/?p=34639"},"modified":"2019-11-29T10:06:53","modified_gmt":"2019-11-29T10:06:53","slug":"a-to-z-of-historical-blunder-episode-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?p=34639","title":{"rendered":"A to Z of Historical Blunder: Episode 24"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mixcloud.com\/widget\/iframe\/?hide_cover=1&amp;feed=%2Fnearfm%2Fa-to-z-of-historical-blunders-xenophobia%2F\" width=\"100%\" height=\"120\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Xenophobia; it just won\u2019t go away<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Welcome to the A to Z of Historical Blunders, the show that reminds us about the dangers of history repeating itself.<\/p>\n<p>Was it ever timelier to be discussing xenophobia? Just this morning I woke up to the news about xenophobic attacks against Nigerians in Johannesburg. In fact, my head is spinning, and I don\u2019t know where to begin; what village, town, city, country, continent? And which stories should concern me the most? The local ones or the global ones? And then there\u2019s that disturbing trend of history repeating itself. Am I being a tad dramatic, drawing comparisons between the geopolitical landscape of the nineteen thirties and the geopolitical landscape of 2019?<\/p>\n<p>The article on which this episode is based can be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldfilibuster.com\/xenophobia-it-just-wonrsquot-go-away.html\">read here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Xenophobia; it just won\u2019t go away Welcome to the A to Z of Historical Blunders, the show that reminds us about the dangers of history repeating itself. Was it ever timelier to be discussing xenophobia? Just this morning I woke up to the news about xenophobic attacks against Nigerians in Johannesburg. In fact, my head [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34641,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10362],"tags":[10363,16565],"class_list":["post-34639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a-to-z-of-historical-blunders","tag-berni-dwan","tag-xenophobia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34639"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34706,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34639\/revisions\/34706"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/34641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}