{"id":133627,"date":"2026-05-12T13:50:46","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T13:50:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=133627"},"modified":"2026-05-12T13:50:46","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T13:50:46","slug":"favorite-tweets-37452","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=133627","title":{"rendered":"Favorite tweets"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udea8 How Trump is using the Iran war to squeeze China \u2014 right before this week&#8217;s Trump-Xi summit.<\/p>\n<p>While the world focuses on the Middle East, the U.S. is using its naval blockade and sanctions to cut off China\u2019s supply of steeply discounted illegal Iranian oil.<\/p>\n<p>Thread \ud83d\udc47 https:\/\/t.co\/Sy7HTXFx0O<\/p>\n<p>  &mdash; Rod D. Martin (@RodDMartin)<br \/>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RodDMartin\/status\/2054190102142673102\">May 12, 2026<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>\nfrom http:\/\/twitter.com\/RodDMartin<br \/>\nvia <a href=\"https:\/\/ifttt.com\/?ref=da&#038;site=wordpress\">IFTTT<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\ud83d\udea8 How Trump is using the Iran war to squeeze China \u2014 right before this week&#8217;s Trump-Xi summit. While the world focuses on the Middle East, the U.S. is using its naval blockade and sanctions to cut off China\u2019s supply of steeply discounted illegal Iranian oil. Thread \ud83d\udc47 https:\/\/t.co\/Sy7HTXFx0O &mdash; Rod D. Martin (@RodDMartin) May &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=133627\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Favorite tweets<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[792],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-133627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blih","tag-twitter"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=133627"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":133628,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133627\/revisions\/133628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=133627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=133627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=133627"},{"taxonomy":"keyring_services","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fkeyring_services&post=133627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}