{"id":2431,"date":"2011-12-29T19:39:23","date_gmt":"2011-12-30T00:39:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iomaire.com\/?p=2431"},"modified":"2012-03-04T11:18:00","modified_gmt":"2012-03-04T16:18:00","slug":"documentary-on-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/2011\/12\/29\/documentary-on-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"Documentary on Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With all of the saber-rattling going on vis-a-vis Iran, I thought that I&#8217;d provide a link to what I thought was a balanced view of the country of Iran.  I don&#8217;t know a lot about Iran, other than that it is a Persian country whose language is Farsi, not Arabic.  Steve Ricks, the narrator,  is a well-known television personality who focuses on European travel. Those who own a TV, unlike me, probably know this.  Anyway, if you are interested and have the time &#8230; the video is about 55 minutes long.  It was a nice introduction to the country for me, even if it was filled with platitudes and over-simplifications.   If I wanted to know more, I&#8217;d read <em>The History of Iran<\/em>, by Elton L. Daniel, to fill me in on the details that are missing in this documentary.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"525\" height=\"400\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/D61uriEGsIM?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0&amp;color1=0xe1600f&amp;color2=0xfebd01&amp;border=1&#038;showinfo=0\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/D61uriEGsIM?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0&amp;color1=0xe1600f&amp;color2=0xfebd01&amp;border=1&#038;showinfo=0\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\"  allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"width=\"525\" height=\"400\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With all of the saber-rattling going on vis-a-vis Iran, I thought that I&#8217;d provide a link to what I thought was a balanced view of the country of Iran. I don&#8217;t know a lot about Iran, other than that it <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/2011\/12\/29\/documentary-on-iran\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2431"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2431"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2473,"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2431\/revisions\/2473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}