{"id":6289,"date":"2010-11-02T00:00:14","date_gmt":"2010-11-02T05:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news\/?p=6289"},"modified":"2018-09-23T00:21:23","modified_gmt":"2018-09-22T19:21:23","slug":"america-america-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/america-america-america\/","title":{"rendered":"America, america, america&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/enhanced-buzz-3178-1288474111-12.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6290\" title=\"enhanced-buzz-3178-1288474111-12\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/enhanced-buzz-3178-1288474111-12.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"437\" height=\"310\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/enhanced-buzz-3243-1288471544-5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6291\" title=\"enhanced-buzz-3243-1288471544-5\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/enhanced-buzz-3243-1288471544-5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"437\" height=\"304\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/enhanced-buzz-3287-1288472491-12.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6292\" title=\"enhanced-buzz-3287-1288472491-12\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/enhanced-buzz-3287-1288472491-12.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"437\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/enhanced-buzz-13043-1288632533-35.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6293\" title=\"enhanced-buzz-13043-1288632533-35\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/enhanced-buzz-13043-1288632533-35.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"437\" height=\"317\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/enhanced-buzz-13043-1288635351-37.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6294\" title=\"enhanced-buzz-13043-1288635351-37\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/enhanced-buzz-13043-1288635351-37.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"437\" height=\"596\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>All across the Excited States of America\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Let me start by saying\u2026 I love you guys (and <em>gals<\/em>, goes without saying), I <em>hate<\/em> you guys, and I\u2019m increasingly <em>ambivalent<\/em> about all you good-ole guys and gals and your overly-polarized, ever-narrowing worldview&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>As an animated fraction(!) of the USA\u2019s three-hundred-and-ten million citizens head out to vote today, please be aware that the \u201crest of the world\u201d watches your amnesic roll to the right and political shenanigans with equal measures of concern, disbelief, and revulsion. It seems that crass, opportunist partisanship has trumped the very basic premise of engaged citizenship and shared civility that your great (OK, <em>formerly great<\/em>) nation was based and built upon\u2026 sad, very sad indeed. I\u2019m sure I\u2019m not alone in remembering an America of the past that seemed worth celebrating in aspirational song..<em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">Images: an assortment of placards, signs, and shirts shown out and about the U.S. in recent days\u2026\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All across the Excited States of America\u2026 Let me start by saying\u2026 I love you guys (and gals, goes without saying), I hate you guys, and I\u2019m increasingly ambivalent about all you good-ole guys and gals and your overly-polarized, ever-narrowing worldview&#8230; As an animated fraction(!) of the USA\u2019s three-hundred-and-ten million citizens head out to vote [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5,7,12,14,20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6289"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6289"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15876,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6289\/revisions\/15876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}