{"id":3971,"date":"2005-11-29T04:53:00","date_gmt":"2005-11-29T04:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=3971"},"modified":"2019-11-22T16:57:27","modified_gmt":"2019-11-22T16:57:27","slug":"compare-two-maps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=3971","title":{"rendered":"Compare two maps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/7264\/1161\/1600\/shia%20population.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/7264\/1161\/320\/shia%20population.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The red areas are where the Shia population is dominant.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/7264\/1161\/1600\/ghawar-mapsm.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/7264\/1161\/320\/ghawar-mapsm.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And compare it to this one, which shows where the oil is in Saudi Arabia (I couldn&#8217;t get one at the right scale &#8211; this is a &#8216;close up&#8217; &#8211; to get a proper sense of the size, focus on Bahrain).<\/p>\n<p>The point of which is simply that most oil is concentrated in Shia-dominant areas, and Iran is a) in a very strong position, and b) is controlled by a more assertive leadership.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The red areas are where the Shia population is dominant. And compare it to this one, which shows where the oil is in Saudi Arabia (I couldn&#8217;t get one at the right scale &#8211; this is a &#8216;close up&#8217; &#8211; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=3971\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[29,67,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crisis","category-foreign-relations","category-islam"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3npsc-123","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3971"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6843,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3971\/revisions\/6843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}