{"id":986922,"date":"2023-02-09T05:39:57","date_gmt":"2023-02-09T05:39:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=273699"},"modified":"2023-02-09T05:39:57","modified_gmt":"2023-02-09T05:39:57","slug":"ballonacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/02\/09\/ballonacy\/","title":{"rendered":"Ballonacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Can an empire sink itself through self-generated ridicule?\u00a0 Will America\u2019s floating a daffy, brainless notion so shallow and infantile that its only intention seems to have been the wish to humiliate itself have consequences?\u00a0 One wonders, since even the Noise Makers of the Ministry of Information and our Federal Confederacy of Dunces have backed this  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/02\/09\/ballonacy\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/02\/09\/ballonacy\/\">Ballonacy<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/02\/09\/ballonacy\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can an empire sink itself through self-generated ridicule?\u00a0 Will America\u2019s floating a daffy, brainless notion so shallow and infantile that its only intention seems to have been the wish to humiliate itself have consequences?\u00a0 One wonders, since even t&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":350,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986922"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/350"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=986922"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":987498,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986922\/revisions\/987498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=986922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=986922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=986922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}