{"id":61710,"date":"2017-01-12T06:08:08","date_gmt":"2017-01-12T12:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=61710"},"modified":"2017-01-14T08:34:37","modified_gmt":"2017-01-14T14:34:37","slug":"sometimes-a-great-notion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=61710","title":{"rendered":"Sometimes A Great Notion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Swiss community <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-4106258\/Left-wing-vegan-moved-Switzerland-denied-Swiss-passport-annoying.html#ixzz4VY3kvWUl\">is un-thrilled by the immigration by a &#8220;left wing vegan&#8221; Dutch woman<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\"><span id=\"ext-gen141\">A left-wing Dutch vegan who campaigned against cowbells in the Swiss village where she lives has had a request for a Swiss passport thrown out after annoying the locals.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Nancy Holten, who was born in the Netherlands but moved to Switzerland at the age of eight, is a fluent speaker of Swiss German and has children who are Swiss nationals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">And she wanted a Swiss passport herself, but was refused after locals who were consulted about her request said they were &#8216;fed up&#8217; of her challenging Swiss traditions by campaigning against the use of cow bells.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">And for you liberals who read this and think &#8220;how terrible!&#8221;, but were campaigning against the Electoral College last month? \u00a0This is what majority rule looks like.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Although this is a salutary example. \u00a0If you&#8217;re Swiss.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Swiss community is un-thrilled by the immigration by a &#8220;left wing vegan&#8221; Dutch woman: A left-wing Dutch vegan who campaigned against cowbells in the Swiss village where she lives has had a request for a Swiss passport thrown out after annoying the locals. Nancy Holten, who was born in the Netherlands but moved to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[109],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sovereignty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61710","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=61710"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61722,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61710\/revisions\/61722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}