{"id":46874,"date":"2024-01-22T20:01:46","date_gmt":"2024-01-22T20:01:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=46874"},"modified":"2024-01-22T20:01:48","modified_gmt":"2024-01-22T20:01:48","slug":"history-politics-guantanamo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/history-politics-guantanamo\/","title":{"rendered":"History, politics: Guantanamo"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>Self-tutoring about history and politics: the tutor mentions the curiosity of Guantanamo Bay.<\/h2>\n<p>\nI guess it&#8217;s been 15 years since Barack Obama promised to close Guantanamo Bay&#8217;s military detention centre. I recall his making the announcement on TV, noting he&#8217;s left-handed as he signed the order to close Guantanamo&#8217;s prison.<\/p>\n<p>\nI also guess that Guantanamo&#8217;s prison is still open. One could argue that wasn&#8217;t Obama&#8217;s fault, since it seems Congress failed to facilitate the closure.<\/p>\n<p>In US politics, the President sometimes has less power than one might imagine.<\/p>\n<p>\nSource:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ici.radio-canada.ca\/nouvelle\/2042336\/guantanamo-prison-etats-unis-archives\">radio-canada<\/a><\/p>\nJack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Self-tutoring about history and politics: the tutor mentions the curiosity of Guantanamo Bay. I guess it&#8217;s been 15 years since Barack Obama promised to close Guantanamo Bay&#8217;s military detention centre. I recall his making the announcement on TV, noting he&#8217;s &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/history-politics-guantanamo\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">History, politics: Guantanamo<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2209,2992],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-us-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46874"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46879,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46874\/revisions\/46879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}