{"id":20307,"date":"2022-08-02T18:29:51","date_gmt":"2022-08-02T18:29:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=20307"},"modified":"2022-08-02T18:44:32","modified_gmt":"2022-08-02T18:44:32","slug":"poke-the-dragon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=20307","title":{"rendered":"Poke the dragon&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2022\/07\/29\/china-taiwan-xi-pelosi-biden\">landed in Taiwan<\/a>&nbsp;Tuesday despite threats from the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2022\/07\/19\/china-pelosi-taiwan-visit\">Chinese government<\/a>&nbsp;that there would be &#8220;serious consequences&#8221; for the visit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"759\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Pelosi-chinese-dragon.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-20310\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Pelosi-chinese-dragon.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Pelosi-chinese-dragon-300x228.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Pelosi-chinese-dragon-768x583.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Pelosi&#8217;s gesture will go down in history as the Pelosi Poke<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"678\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Court-Painter-The-pelosi-poke.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-20311\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Court-Painter-The-pelosi-poke.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Court-Painter-The-pelosi-poke-300x203.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Court-Painter-The-pelosi-poke-768x521.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi&nbsp;landed in Taiwan&nbsp;Tuesday despite threats from the&nbsp;Chinese government&nbsp;that there would be &#8220;serious consequences&#8221; for the visit. Pelosi&#8217;s gesture will go down in history as the Pelosi Poke<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-images","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20307"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20314,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20307\/revisions\/20314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}