{"id":350,"date":"2008-11-02T10:04:10","date_gmt":"2008-11-02T17:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/?p=350"},"modified":"2009-07-31T16:32:15","modified_gmt":"2009-07-31T23:32:15","slug":"a-critique-of-the-united-states-from-germany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/archives\/350","title":{"rendered":"A critique of the United States. From Germany."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spiegel.de\/international\/world\/0,1518,587736,00.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cache.gawker.com\/assets\/images\/gawker\/2008\/11\/pppp.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I like to think globally (or at least, I think I do).<\/p>\n<p>This morning I ran across this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spiegel.de\/international\/world\/0,1518,587736,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">analysis of the United States<\/a> &#8211; via Gawker, published in Der Spiegel.<\/p>\n<p>I find the P.O.V. fascinating to digest, and decided to repost it &#8211; wondering what other opinions would be. It has some inflammatory comments, but I appreciate the blunt language and directness of the text. It is an opinion piece &#8211; one agrees, disagrees, digests. <\/p>\n<p>What do you think?<\/p>\n\r\n\t<div style=\"float: left; \">\r\n\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-count=\"horizontal\" data-text=\"A critique of the United States. From Germany. \" data-url=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/archives\/350\"  data-via=\"mehallo\">Tweet<\/a>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\"><\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I like to think globally (or at least, I think I do). This morning I ran across this analysis of the United States &#8211; via Gawker, published in Der Spiegel. I find the P.O.V. fascinating to digest, and decided to repost it &#8211; wondering what other opinions would be. It has some inflammatory comments, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,45,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finds","category-myspace_blog","category-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=350"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":876,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350\/revisions\/876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}