{"id":1396,"date":"2006-02-09T21:31:29","date_gmt":"2006-02-09T21:31:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/2006\/02\/turkmenistan\/"},"modified":"2006-02-09T21:31:29","modified_gmt":"2006-02-09T21:31:29","slug":"turkmenistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/2006\/02\/turkmenistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkmenistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For a while <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Turkmenistan\">Turkmenistan<\/a> has been a country of fun and a source of jokes for writers everywhere.<br \/>\nFor example here are a couple of mentions in The West Wing:-<br \/>\nBARTLET: Well the President of Turkmenistan just officially extended the date of adolescence to twenty-five.<br \/>\n(<em>Swiss Diplomacy<\/em>)<br \/>\nWILL: What about Turkmenistan?<br \/>\nJOSH: It&#8217;s a nation of Labradors run by Zeppo Marx. Can we please stop talking about Turkmenistan?<br \/>\n(<em>Third Day Story<\/em>)<br \/>\nHowever, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/international\/story\/0,,1702010,00.html\">this article<\/a> in last Saturday&#8217;s Guardian makes you realise that Saparmurat Niyazov, the country&#8217;s president &#8216;for life&#8217; is not really a figure of fun if you have the misfortune to live there.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/letters\/story\/0,,1703685,00.html\">A follow up letter<\/a> a couple of days later highlighted more of the problems the country&#8217;s facing following the leader&#8217;s &#8216;eccentric&#8217; behaviour.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s a real shame that I can&#8217;t listen again to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/pressoffice\/pressreleases\/stories\/2005\/11_november\/09\/turkmenistan.shtml\">this programme<\/a> made by two BBC journalists at the end of last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For a while Turkmenistan has been a country of fun and a source of jokes for writers everywhere. For example here are a couple of mentions in The West Wing:- BARTLET: Well the President of Turkmenistan just officially extended the date of adolescence to twenty-five. (Swiss Diplomacy) WILL: What about Turkmenistan? JOSH: It&#8217;s a nation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1396"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1396\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}