{"id":312,"date":"2004-12-01T18:40:57","date_gmt":"2004-12-02T01:40:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/?p=312"},"modified":"2004-12-01T18:40:57","modified_gmt":"2004-12-02T01:40:57","slug":"various-international-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/2004\/12\/01\/various-international-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Various International News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><Ul><\/p>\n<li>French scientists <a href=\"http:\/\/my.webmd.com\/content\/Article\/97\/104268.htm?printing=true\">have announced a beginning to an HIV vaccine.<\/a>\n<li>Here&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/jeanmatthieu.free.fr\/cocoajt\/\">really cool Mac program<\/a> that allows you to watch French-language TV via Internet. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.doktorkleanor.com\/en\/chirurgie\/en_scripts_modernes.php#frenchtvnews\">And another one.<\/a>\n<li>And there&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/story.news.yahoo.com\/news?tmpl=story&#038;u=\/afp\/iran_us_gulf_media\">little bruhaha brewing<\/a> with National Geographic labelling the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Persian_gulf\">Persian Gulf<\/a> as &#8220;Persian Gulf (Arabian Gulf)&#8221;, despite the fact that both in Arabic and Farsi it&#8217;s called the &#8220;Fars Gulf&#8221; (Fars being the province where the Farsi language originated, which when transferred into Greek eventually became Pers, hence Persia and Persian.)  &#1575;&#1604;&#1582;&#1604;&#1610;&#1580; &#1575;&#1604;&#1601;&#1575;&#1585;&#1587;&#1610; (Arabic) and  &#1582;&#1604;&#1740;&#1580; &#1601;&#1575;&#1585;&#1587; (Farsi). If this bothers you, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.petitiononline.com\/persian\/petition.html\">sign this petition.<\/a>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>French scientists have announced a beginning to an HIV vaccine. Here&#8217;s a really cool Mac program that allows you to watch French-language TV via Internet. And another one. And there&#8217;s a little bruhaha brewing with National Geographic labelling the Persian Gulf as &#8220;Persian Gulf (Arabian Gulf)&#8221;, despite the fact that both in Arabic and Farsi it&#8217;s called the &#8220;Fars Gulf&#8221; (Fars being the province where the Farsi language originated, which when transferred into Greek eventually became Pers, hence Persia and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","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_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-foreign-affairs","post_format-post-format-aside"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4uks-52","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}