{"id":974,"date":"2001-05-13T22:38:44","date_gmt":"2001-05-13T22:38:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.soulhuntre.com\/items\/date\/2001\/05\/13\/opinionjournal-featured-article-the\/"},"modified":"2001-05-13T22:38:44","modified_gmt":"2001-05-13T22:38:44","slug":"opinionjournal-featured-article-the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/2001\/05\/13\/opinionjournal-featured-article-the\/","title":{"rendered":"OpinionJournal &#8211; Featured Article: The"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/opinionjournal.com\/editorial\/feature.html?id=95000464\">OpinionJournal &#8211; Featured Article: The Envy of Europe <\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8230;Twenty years ago an affable rancher named Ronald Reagan showed up in Washington to hoots of derision from American and European intelligentsia: &#8220;He&#8217;s stupid, he&#8217;s arrogant, he&#8217;s going to bring on Armageddon.&#8221; Two decades and a Cold War victory later, another affable rancher showed up in Washington to much the same cries..&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8230;Just 100-odd days into a new Presidency, America has become such a mean-spirited and menacing country that we are asked to forgive the rest of the world as it recoils in horror&#8211;or so some pundits and Democratic Congressmen tell us. As New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd, who is funny these days only in unintended ways, sums up: &#8220;Doesn&#8217;t W. realize that EVERYBODY in the world HATES us?&#8221; So when the U.S. gets booted off the U.N. Human Rights Commission, and Sudan, where chattel slavery is practiced, gets accepted, it&#8217;s supposed to be an unsurprising humiliation for us and not the U.N&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OpinionJournal &#8211; Featured Article: The Envy of Europe &#8220;&#8230;Twenty years ago an affable rancher named Ronald Reagan showed up in Washington to hoots of derision from American and European intelligentsia: &#8220;He&#8217;s stupid, he&#8217;s arrogant, he&#8217;s going to bring on Armageddon.&#8221; Two decades and a Cold War victory later, another affable rancher showed up in Washington [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":56253,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[278],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}