{"id":6831,"date":"2012-11-16T09:00:10","date_gmt":"2012-11-16T14:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=6831"},"modified":"2012-12-29T01:28:47","modified_gmt":"2012-12-29T06:28:47","slug":"is-james-bonda-coward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2012\/is-james-bonda-coward\/","title":{"rendered":"Is James Bond\u2026A Coward?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/111612_0750_IsJamesBond1.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"322\" \/><\/p>\n<p>007 is a coward writes Frank Jacobs. Highlights of his argument include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In all of his movies James Bond has visited ~46 countries. The majority are in safe and stable Europe. A few are in Asia and the Americas. Bond only visits Africa four times.<\/li>\n<li>Since 9\/11 there have been four Bond films. Not one of them took place in a Middle Eastern country.<\/li>\n<li>This avoidance of Britain&#8217;s great battles isn&#8217;t unprecedented. During the days of The Cold War Bond was loathe to visit or fight the Soviet Union.<\/li>\n<li>As China becomes a bigger geopolitical threat to Britain, you can expect to see Bond somewhere far away, safe from the danger China may pose.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more about Bond&#8217;s various trips abroad, what they say about England as a great power, and speculation about where the next Bond film will be set over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foreignpolicy.com\/articles\/2012\/11\/15\/the_world_is_not_enough?page=full\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foreignpolicy.com\/articles\/2012\/11\/15\/the_world_is_not_enough?page=full\">Foreign Policy<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>007 is a coward writes Frank Jacobs. Highlights of his argument include: In all of his movies James Bond has visited ~46 countries. The majority are in safe and stable Europe. A few are in Asia and the Americas. Bond only visits Africa four times. Since 9\/11 there have been four Bond films. Not one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6830,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin","category-signature"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/111612_0750_IsJamesBond1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6831"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6835,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6831\/revisions\/6835"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}