{"id":13434,"date":"2013-11-04T10:20:01","date_gmt":"2013-11-04T17:20:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=13434"},"modified":"2013-11-04T10:20:01","modified_gmt":"2013-11-04T17:20:01","slug":"jimmy-carters-full-of-rage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2013\/11\/04\/jimmy-carters-full-of-rage\/","title":{"rendered":"Jimmy Carter&#8217;s full of rage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>&#8220;The first time I came here to Cape Town I almost got in a fight with the president of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, because he was refusing to let Aids be treated,&#8221; Carter told the newspaper.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>He said at the time, then-health minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang was standing with Mbeki.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>&#8220;That&#8217;s the closest I&#8217;ve come to getting into a fist fight with a head of state&#8221;.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sowetanlive.co.za\/news\/2013\/11\/04\/i-almost-punched-mbeki-carter\">Jimmy Carter, ladies and gentlemen<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>While I see the commentors there (hip to the politics in Africa) tend to the &#8220;Mbeki has it coming&#8221; tact, the commenters here (American politics as gossip) tend to the <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/ballot-box\/189110-jimmy-carter-nearly-punched-former-south-african-president-over-aids-policy\">&#8220;I doubt it&#8221; line<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0&#8212; Carter&#8217;s exaggerating his revulsion for effect.<\/p>\n<p>This from a man who had<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jimmy_Carter_rabbit_incident\"> so much trouble with a rabbit<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The first time I came here to Cape Town I almost got in a fight with the president of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, because he was refusing to let Aids be treated,&#8221; Carter told the newspaper. He said at the time, then-health minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang was standing with Mbeki. &#8220;That&#8217;s the closest I&#8217;ve come to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13434"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13435,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13434\/revisions\/13435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}