{"id":1071,"date":"2007-02-19T07:19:19","date_gmt":"2007-02-19T07:19:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/groonk.net\/bits\/?p=1071"},"modified":"2007-02-19T07:19:19","modified_gmt":"2007-02-19T07:19:19","slug":"groonkly-bit-hello-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/bits\/?p=1071","title":{"rendered":"Groonkly Bit: Hello, America"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve held on to this one for weeks. What a coincidence I’m dropping it on President’s Day.<\/p>\n

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America remains an astonishingly good idea — and those rights held to be self-evident, that had never ever been written down before and which shaped every Western revolutionary society and republic that followed…it’s those freedoms that turned the country into both an engine of innovation and an inarguable nuthatch.
–Warren Ellis, Crooked Little Vein<\/u> newsarama interview<\/a> <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve held on to this one for weeks. What a coincidence I’m dropping it on President’s Day. America remains an astonishingly good idea — and those rights held to be self-evident, that had never ever been written down before and which shaped every Western revolutionary society and republic that followed…it’s those freedoms that turned the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/bits\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/bits\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/bits\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/bits\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/bits\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/bits\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1071\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/bits\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/bits\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/bits\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}