{"id":12,"date":"2006-11-06T12:27:29","date_gmt":"2006-11-06T18:27:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php\/secession-diaries\/"},"modified":"2012-07-31T08:02:29","modified_gmt":"2012-07-31T13:02:29","slug":"secession-diaries","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?page_id=12","title":{"rendered":"Secession Diaries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After the 2004 election, some among our nation&#8217;s left-wing bloggers and commentators showed their maturity and stability by declaring that this nation was really two nations: the United States of Canada, and &#8220;Jesusland&#8221;.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/jesuspolitics.typepad.com\/jesus_politics\/images\/jesusland.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n(I&#8217;m presuming that the Canadian Liberal Party&#8217;s 2005 drubbing may have altered some of the left&#8217;s Canadophilia).<\/p>\n<p>So I thought &#8211; what if it actually <em>happened<\/em>?\u00a0 What if the US split into two nations &#8211; a UN-up-sucking, welfare-stating, pro-choicing, anti-gunning &#8220;Happy To Pay For A Better US of C&#8221;-ing nanny state, and a land of rock-ribbed real Americans?<\/p>\n<p>Until I get my archives fixed, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/archives\/cat_secession_diaries.html\">results of that thought are here<\/a>.\u00a0 Hope you enjoy reading them as much as I enjoyed writing them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the 2004 election, some among our nation&#8217;s left-wing bloggers and commentators showed their maturity and stability by declaring that this nation was really two nations: the United States of Canada, and &#8220;Jesusland&#8221;. (I&#8217;m presuming that the Canadian Liberal Party&#8217;s 2005 drubbing may have altered some of the left&#8217;s Canadophilia). So I thought &#8211; what [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-12","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29298,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12\/revisions\/29298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}