{"id":796,"date":"2007-05-06T13:04:30","date_gmt":"2007-05-06T19:04:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php\/index.php\/2007\/05\/06\/vive-la-france\/"},"modified":"2007-05-06T13:04:30","modified_gmt":"2007-05-06T19:04:30","slug":"vive-la-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=796","title":{"rendered":"<i>Vive La France!<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/today.reuters.com\/misc\/PrinterFriendlyPopup.aspx?type=worldNews&#038;storyID=2007-05-06T181532Z_01_L06633468_RTRUKOC_0_US-FRANCE-ELECTION.xml\">Freedom advances<\/a> in that craziest of places:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Conservative Nicolas Sarkozy won France&#8217;s presidential election on Sunday, beating his Socialist rival Segolene Royal by a comfortable margin and extending the right&#8217;s 12-year grip on power.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Last week &#8211; in between <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theaustralian.news.com.au\/story\/0,20867,21680673-2703,00.html\">bleating that Sarkozy was\u00a0a hatemonger<\/a> &#8211; Royal noted that her supporters were getting ready to hit the streets and smash things.<\/p>\n<p>So far so good.<\/p>\n<p>Now there&#8217;s the little matter of governing his virtually-ungovernable country.<\/p>\n<p>But Sarkozy&#8217;s victory is a sign that maybe France isn&#8217;t dead yet.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps we should be so lucky in &#8217;08.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Freedom advances in that craziest of places: Conservative Nicolas Sarkozy won France&#8217;s presidential election on Sunday, beating his Socialist rival Segolene Royal by a comfortable margin and extending the right&#8217;s 12-year grip on power. Last week &#8211; in between bleating that Sarkozy was\u00a0a hatemonger &#8211; Royal noted that her supporters were getting ready to hit [&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-796","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\/796","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=796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}