{"id":375,"date":"2014-09-15T21:07:19","date_gmt":"2014-09-15T21:07:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billhayton.com\/?p=375"},"modified":"2014-12-05T01:52:26","modified_gmt":"2014-12-05T01:52:26","slug":"a-splendid-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billhayton.com\/?p=375","title":{"rendered":"First review &#8211; &#8220;A splendid book&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.billhayton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/The-Economist-logo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-376\" alt=\"The-Economist-logo\" src=\"http:\/\/www.billhayton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/The-Economist-logo-300x168.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.billhayton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/The-Economist-logo-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.billhayton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/The-Economist-logo.jpg 526w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>A really excellent review of the book by The Economist, &#8220;Bill Hayton\u2019s splendid book lucidly covers these disputes in all their complexity from virtually every angle\u2014historical, legal, political, economic and strategic. A journalist with the BBC and author of a previous book on Vietnam, he tells a good yarn, even when the topic is as dry as the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS). Indeed, he may be the first person ever to have written an exciting account of a meeting of the Association of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN).&#8221; You can read the original review <a title=\"Link to the review on The Economist\" href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/news\/books-and-arts\/21616880-new-book-dips-toxic-waters-around-asia-waves-trouble\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A really excellent review of the book by The Economist, &#8220;Bill Hayton\u2019s splendid book lucidly covers these disputes in all their complexity from virtually every angle\u2014historical, legal, political, economic and strategic. A journalist with the BBC and author of a previous book on Vietnam, he tells a good yarn, even when the topic is as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":376,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[16],"tags":[24,37,23],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.billhayton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/The-Economist-logo.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4tOHn-63","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billhayton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billhayton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billhayton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billhayton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billhayton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=375"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.billhayton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":378,"href":"https:\/\/www.billhayton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375\/revisions\/378"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billhayton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billhayton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billhayton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billhayton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}