{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "The convenient thing about that part of the planet is that being so close to the cradle of civilization it has so much history,...", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/43370137267/", "html": "<p>The convenient thing about that part of the planet is that being so close to the cradle of civilization it has so much history, so there&rsquo;s always a pretext and always a faction with a claim to patronize, yet never so large or powerful that they can swallow their patron.</p>"}