{"id":4938,"date":"2011-09-05T06:40:40","date_gmt":"2011-09-05T13:40:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/simonburrow.com\/\/?p=4938"},"modified":"2011-08-27T11:58:19","modified_gmt":"2011-08-27T18:58:19","slug":"the-cilantro-spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?p=4938","title":{"rendered":"The Cilantro Spring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In many Arab countries last spring there were revolutions. Three of them Morocco, Egypt and Libya\u00a0 ended up causing the government to fail and new people and hopefully democratic ideas to rise.\u00a0 This movement has come to be know generally as the <strong>Arab Spring<\/strong>. And it is not over yet.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a class=\"tt-flickr tt-flickr-Small\" title=\"IMG_2411\" href=\"http:\/\/simonburrow.com\/\/photos\/photo\/6086560974\/img_2411.html\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6193\/6086560974_ebc41d9dff_m.jpg?resize=240%2C180\" alt=\"IMG_2411\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If Mexico were to have a similar revolution against corruption, drug violence and the power of the oligarchs I propose that it could be called the <span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>Cilantro Spring<\/strong><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>Now I&#8217;m not proposing that this should happen, that it is a good idea or encouraging it in any way.\u00a0 I&#8217;m just saying if it does happen: The <span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>Cilantro Spring<\/strong><\/span> is a good name for it.<\/p>\n<p>A smart young Mexican entrepreneur should buy the URL for this one.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In many Arab countries last spring there were revolutions. Three of them Morocco, Egypt and Libya\u00a0 ended up causing the government to fail and new people and hopefully democratic ideas to rise.\u00a0 This movement has come to be know generally as the Arab Spring. And it is not over yet. If Mexico were to have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-success"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p99jGb-1hE","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4938"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4939,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4938\/revisions\/4939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}