{"id":1476,"date":"2007-04-20T23:15:22","date_gmt":"2007-04-21T02:15:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1476"},"modified":"2007-10-14T22:22:21","modified_gmt":"2007-10-15T01:22:21","slug":"america-at-a-crossroad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1476","title":{"rendered":"America at a crossroad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcap\">A<\/span>ll week, <a href='http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?attachment_id=1477' rel='attachment wp-att-1477' title='Burubudur'><img class=\"alignright\" src='http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/bo_robu_dur.thumbnail.jpg' alt='Burubudur' \/><\/a>the PBS has been broadcasting an excellent series about the challenges we face in the world, particularly the conflicts <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/weta\/crossroads\/about\/index.html\">between the religious and the secular worlds<\/a>. Watching the series, I thought that the name of the series was a bit unfortunate: The majority of the independently produced movies do not all concentrate on specific US affairs. Yesterday, the series kicked off with an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/weta\/crossroads\/about\/show_faith_without_fear.html\">hour long documentary<\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Irshad_Manji\">Irshad Manji<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>The second part was dedicated to Indonesia, in which the country was held as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/weta\/crossroads\/about\/show_indonesia.html\">an example of religious tolerance and moderation<\/a> despite the general view Westerners have of that country. That was apparently until (ironically) the fall of the Suharto dictatorship in 1999. That page linked above, points to some <a href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/news\/international\/countriesandterritories\/indonesia\/index.html?8qa\">excellent background information<\/a> on Indonesia (NYT!).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All week, the PBS has been broadcasting an excellent series about the challenges we face in the world, particularly the conflicts between the religious and the secular worlds. Watching the series, I thought that the name of the series was &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1476\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[165,179,160,164,156],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1476"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1476\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}