{"id":1739,"date":"2005-08-22T15:19:22","date_gmt":"2005-08-22T19:19:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2005\/08\/instant_constit\/"},"modified":"2005-08-22T15:19:22","modified_gmt":"2005-08-22T19:19:22","slug":"instant_constit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2005\/08\/instant_constit\/","title":{"rendered":"Instant Constitution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re less than an hour from the (second) deadline on the draft of the Iraqi constitution.  And if an agreement has been reached, TV news is still unaware of it.<br \/>\nI know last-minute deals are quite common in some processes (e.g., labor contracts, legislation).  But a national constitution?  What kind of quick fixes can you make in an agreement of that magnitude?<br \/>\nMoreover, the way TV news has covered this the past few weeks leads me to conclude that either: (1) most reporters really don&#8217;t have a keen grasp on what&#8217;s going on in that country, or (2) they aren&#8217;t giving us the straight scoop on what they do know.<br \/>\nUPDATE:  Another Iraqi punt.  And up until the annoucement, CNN didn&#8217;t appear to know what was happening.  Weird.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2005\/08\/instant_constit\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Instant Constitution\"><p>We&#8217;re less than an hour from the (second) deadline on the draft of the Iraqi constitution. And if an agreement has been reached, TV news is still unaware of it. I know last-minute deals are quite common in some processes (e.g., labor contracts, legislation). But a national constitution? What kind of quick fixes can you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1739","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1739\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}