{"id":6397,"date":"2009-11-18T08:00:53","date_gmt":"2009-11-18T13:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=6397"},"modified":"2009-11-17T21:59:44","modified_gmt":"2009-11-18T02:59:44","slug":"it-would-be-nice-if-some-leader-could-induce-the-country-to-salivate-for-the-future-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=6397","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;It would be nice if some leader could induce the country to salivate for the future again.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Instead of apologizing for it&#8217;s past.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/11\/17\/opinion\/17brooks.html?_r=1&amp;hpw\">The Chinese, though members of a famously old civilization<\/a>, seem to possess some  of the vigor that once defined the U.S. The Chinese are now an astonishingly  optimistic people. Eighty-six percent of Chinese believe their country is headed  in the right direction, compared with 37 percent of Americans.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Take a bow, indeed Mr. President.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Instead of apologizing for it&#8217;s past. The Chinese, though members of a famously old civilization, seem to possess some of the vigor that once defined the U.S. The Chinese are now an astonishingly optimistic people. Eighty-six percent of Chinese believe their country is headed in the right direction, compared with 37 percent of Americans. Take [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":228,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-capitalism-v-socialism","category-president-obama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6397","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\/228"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6397"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6400,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6397\/revisions\/6400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}