{"id":214,"date":"2003-11-26T02:01:28","date_gmt":"2003-11-26T07:01:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2003\/11\/america_a_free_country\/"},"modified":"2003-11-26T02:01:28","modified_gmt":"2003-11-26T07:01:28","slug":"america_a_free_country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2003\/11\/america_a_free_country\/","title":{"rendered":"America: A &#8220;Free Country&#8221;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was glancing through President Bush&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/news\/releases\/2003\/11\/20031125-5.html\">remarks on the Medicare bill<\/a>, and came across this nugget:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Free countries don&#8217;t develop weapons of mass destruction. Free countries don&#8217;t attack their neighbors. Free countries listen to the hopes and aspirations of the people who live in those countries. America also believes that freedom is not America&#8217;s gift to the world, freedom is the Almighty&#8217;s gift to every person who lives in this world.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Interesting.  Either America must not be a free country, or some other nation must have given us a nuclear arsenal large enough to obliterate the entire world.<br \/>\nOh, and somehow our army also found itself camped in Iraq.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2003\/11\/america_a_free_country\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to America: A &#8220;Free Country&#8221;?\"><p>I was glancing through President Bush&#8217;s remarks on the Medicare bill, and came across this nugget: Free countries don&#8217;t develop weapons of mass destruction. Free countries don&#8217;t attack their neighbors. Free countries listen to the hopes and aspirations of the people who live in those countries. America also believes that freedom is not America&#8217;s gift [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-214","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}