{"id":4286,"date":"2009-11-30T09:17:13","date_gmt":"2009-11-30T09:17:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2009\/11\/30\/thank-you-switzerland\/"},"modified":"2009-11-30T09:17:13","modified_gmt":"2009-11-30T09:17:13","slug":"thank-you-switzerland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2009\/11\/30\/thank-you-switzerland\/","title":{"rendered":"Thank You, Switzerland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s always nice to be reminded that the US is not the only country in the world prone to acts of <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/6676271.stm\">petty and childish xenophobia<\/a>. The last eight years have been especially rough, but between the Obama administration acting like adults and now this silly minaret ban, we no longer look like the most infantile Western nation.<\/p>\n<p>So, thanks, Switzerland. I&#8217;ll be sure to pick you up some chocolate later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s always nice to be reminded that the US is not the only country in the world prone to acts of petty and childish xenophobia. The last eight years have been especially rough, but between the Obama administration acting like adults and now this silly minaret ban, we no longer look like the most infantile&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2009\/11\/30\/thank-you-switzerland\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Thank You, Switzerland<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,30,105],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-religion","category-world","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4286\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}