{"id":312,"date":"2003-06-19T09:23:53","date_gmt":"2003-06-19T09:23:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/?p=312"},"modified":"2015-02-03T16:25:14","modified_gmt":"2015-02-04T00:25:14","slug":"a-civilized-culture-eh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/2003\/06\/19\/a-civilized-culture-eh\/","title":{"rendered":"A Civilized Culture, Eh?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As America continues along on its clumsy, reactionary path to the future, its northern neighbor quietly and confidently charts <a title=\"News Analysis: Canada's  Gay Marriage Plan\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2003\/06\/19\/international\/americas\/19CANA.html?ex=1056600000&amp;en=fd21f0c31629c148&amp;ei=5062&amp;partner=GOOGLE\">a different course<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Another plus for living in Seattle &#8212; it&#8217;s close to the border. Of course, any day now Canada is likely to be included on the U.S. government&#8217;s Axis of Evil list, and Bush will create jobs for the ailing economy through construction of a border wall that&#8217;ll put all others to shame.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As America continues along on its clumsy, reactionary path to the future, its northern neighbor quietly and confidently charts a different course. Another plus for living in Seattle &#8212; it&#8217;s close to the border. Of course, any day now Canada is likely to be included on the U.S. government&#8217;s Axis of Evil list, and Bush&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/2003\/06\/19\/a-civilized-culture-eh\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Civilized Culture, Eh?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\" aria-hidden=\"true\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics-policy-culture"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5heLP-52","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":540,"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312\/revisions\/540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}