{"id":380,"date":"2003-11-04T21:18:28","date_gmt":"2003-11-05T00:18:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=380"},"modified":"2003-11-04T21:18:28","modified_gmt":"2003-11-05T00:18:28","slug":"old-europe-vs-the-new-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=380","title":{"rendered":"Old Europe vs. the New World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=dropcap>Y<\/span>ou can say everything about the &#8216;Old Europe&#8217;, but at least they sometimes do the right thing over there. <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/europe\/3240799.stm\">Take this case for example:<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>A German general got sacked after it became known he praised a German MP who compared <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/europe\/3234099.stm\">the Jews&#8217; actions with Russian pogroms<\/a>. They take these matters serious in Germany. Now, compare that with the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/americas\/3199212.stm\">general who angered the US Muslim community<\/a> by comparing his God with their God. Said Rumsfeld:\n<\/p>\n<p class=quote>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8220;We&#8217;re a free people. And that&#8217;s the wonderful thing about our country&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Truly an understatement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can say everything about the &#8216;Old Europe&#8217;, but at least they sometimes do the right thing over there. Take this case for example: A German general got sacked after it became known he praised a German MP who compared &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=380\">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":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380"}],"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=380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}