{"id":38254,"date":"2013-09-10T08:00:38","date_gmt":"2013-09-10T13:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=38254"},"modified":"2013-09-10T09:16:47","modified_gmt":"2013-09-10T14:16:47","slug":"cant-start-a-fire-without-a-spark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=38254","title":{"rendered":"Can&#8217;t Start A Fire Without A Spark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/asia_pacific\/australia-election-begins-with-conservative-opposition-tipped-to-win-despite-unpopular-leader\/2013\/09\/06\/b8705a02-175b-11e3-961c-f22d3aaf19ab_story.html\">voters toss a carbon-taxing, border-opening, &#8220;War on Womyn&#8221;-pimping government in Australia<\/a>, ushering in a conservative government.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/tizona.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/02\/australian_flag_2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"532\" height=\"355\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And in Norway &#8211; yes, Norway &#8211; a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/intl\/cms\/s\/0\/e953b5a4-195b-11e3-83b9-00144feab7de.html#axzz2eRiykKTq\">center-right coalition toppled the socialists<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.flagsinformation.com\/norwegian-flag.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"349\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I know &#8211; &#8220;conservative&#8221; is relative around the world.\u00a0 There was a time when the conventional wisdom was that European &#8220;conservatives&#8221; were like American Democrats.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>That was before American Democrats became the extremist party, of course.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week &#8211; voters toss a carbon-taxing, border-opening, &#8220;War on Womyn&#8221;-pimping government in Australia, ushering in a conservative government.\u00a0 And in Norway &#8211; yes, Norway &#8211; a center-right coalition toppled the socialists.\u00a0 I know &#8211; &#8220;conservative&#8221; is relative around the world.\u00a0 There was a time when the conventional wisdom was that European &#8220;conservatives&#8221; were like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conservatism","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"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=38254"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38262,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38254\/revisions\/38262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}