{"id":795,"date":"2009-03-25T20:54:40","date_gmt":"2009-03-25T15:24:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kashmirnetwork.com\/justju\/?p=795"},"modified":"2018-03-30T21:03:28","modified_gmt":"2018-03-30T15:33:28","slug":"a-clear-point-of-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmirnetwork.com\/justju\/?p=795","title":{"rendered":"A Clear Point of View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An excerpt from an article titled &#8220;No More Friday Afternoons in the Old City&#8221; published in the Viewpoint section of <strong>Greater Kashmir<\/strong> by <strong>Carin Jodha Fisher<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;The main sources of my own frustration, and I am sure of many others here, include many things besides the curbing of personal freedoms: <\/p>\n<p>&#8211; smug bureaucrats who have the power to endlessly delay developmental or any projects, making us squirm while trying to push them along; <\/p>\n<p>&#8211; friends who seem to lack truthfulness and commitment to an idea; <\/p>\n<p>&#8211; acquaintances who appear to be one thing but turn out to be another; <\/p>\n<p>&#8211; politicians who promise economic salvation in low level governmental jobs instead of encouraging people to take their fate into their own hands; <\/p>\n<p>&#8211; the young who seek but cannot find hope in a future that they dont believe will be determined by themselves; <\/p>\n<p>&#8211; divided local communities who fight each other instead of the various outside forces that are keeping them down; <\/p>\n<p>&#8211; leaders of different ideological persuasions urging change with rebel rousing slogans while assuring that their own existence remains unchanged and protected; <\/p>\n<p>&#8211; widows and orphans who attract media coverage but little other attention; <\/p>\n<p>&#8211; timber smugglers who loot the forests in connivance with greedy government officials; <\/p>\n<p>&#8211; authorities who lack the will to protect the precious resources of a place that could move towards economic self-sufficiency, instead of environmental disaster, if those resources were managed with greater transparency, sincerity and skill; <\/p>\n<p>and last but not least,<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; the sometimes seemingly empty pursuit of achieving nationhood in a nation that has yet to be built or else may one day become only a wasteland of the free.&#8221; <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An excerpt from an article titled &#8220;No More Friday Afternoons in the Old City&#8221; published in the Viewpoint section of Greater Kashmir by Carin Jodha Fisher. &#8220;The main sources of my own frustration, and I am sure of many others here, include many things besides the curbing of personal freedoms: &#8211; smug bureaucrats who have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kashmir"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmirnetwork.com\/justju\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmirnetwork.com\/justju\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmirnetwork.com\/justju\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirnetwork.com\/justju\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirnetwork.com\/justju\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=795"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirnetwork.com\/justju\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":796,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirnetwork.com\/justju\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795\/revisions\/796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmirnetwork.com\/justju\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirnetwork.com\/justju\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirnetwork.com\/justju\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}