{"id":49,"date":"2011-04-23T23:57:49","date_gmt":"2011-04-23T23:57:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ramallahcafe.com\/?p=49"},"modified":"2011-05-02T22:05:29","modified_gmt":"2011-05-02T22:05:29","slug":"the-palestine-papers-a-fact-based-play-in-one-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ramallahcafe.com\/?p=49","title":{"rendered":"The Palestine Papers:  A fact-based play, in one act"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Uncle Sam to his shrink:\u00a0 &#8220;For six decades I&#8217;ve been pretending to be the honest  broker  &#8212;  but I&#8217;m here to tell you: It&#8217;s all lies!&#8221;<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ramallahcafe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Uncle+Sam+sad2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-56\" title=\"Uncle+Sam+sad\" src=\"http:\/\/ramallahcafe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Uncle+Sam+sad2-230x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"230\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ramallahcafe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Uncle+Sam+sad2-230x300.jpg 230w, https:\/\/ramallahcafe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Uncle+Sam+sad2.jpg 295w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 230px) 100vw, 230px\" \/><\/a>Scene: A psychiatrist&#8217;s office in a nondescript strip mall in  suburban  Virginia. Dr. Weller, a clean-shaven, balding man in his  sixties,  wearing horn-rimmed glasses, khaki pants and a loose knit  sweater with  suede elbow patches, moves across the carpeted floor to  greet his new  client. At the doorway stands a tall, rangy senior  citizen with a  pointed white beard and top hat with red and white  stripes and a white  star on a blue background. Dr. Weller extends his  hand.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/news\/politics\/war_room\/2011\/01\/29\/palestine_papers_tolan\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read more, from Salon&#8230;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uncle Sam to his shrink:\u00a0 &#8220;For six decades I&#8217;ve been pretending to be the honest broker &#8212; but I&#8217;m here to tell you: It&#8217;s all lies!&#8221; Scene: A psychiatrist&#8217;s office in a nondescript strip mall in suburban Virginia. Dr. Weller, a clean-shaven, balding man in his sixties, wearing horn-rimmed glasses, khaki pants and a loose <a href=\"https:\/\/ramallahcafe.com\/?p=49#more-'\" class=\"more-link\">more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramallahcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramallahcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramallahcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramallahcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramallahcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/ramallahcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52,"href":"https:\/\/ramallahcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions\/52"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramallahcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramallahcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramallahcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}