{"id":132,"date":"2003-07-08T18:35:28","date_gmt":"2003-07-08T18:35:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=132"},"modified":"2003-07-08T18:35:28","modified_gmt":"2003-07-08T18:35:28","slug":"what_a_wonderfu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=132","title":{"rendered":"What A Wonderful World"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cell phone ringtones that sound like you’re at the zoo<\/a>. Can’t wait. But it’s probably better than that god-awful Auld Lang Syne ring.
\nYes, I know that nation building is not a walk in the park. Nevertheless, the continued barrage of attacks against American troops in Iraq<\/a> makes it difficult to keep claiming that we are there to liberate them. The Bushies keep insisting that this is the work of a radical few, but I’m not so sure. I think the attacks, at some level, are a symptom of the average Iraqi’s frustration and resentment at not just the American presence, but the inability of the Americans to bring some semblance of normalcy to their lives. I may be wrong, but I don’t think you would see nearly this much violence if the electricity was on and people had jobs to go to. But instead, you have Paul Bremer being driven around like Caesar while ill-trained and homesick American soldiers<\/a> struggle to calm a hungry and scared populace.
\nAnd elsewhere in the world, people still don’t like us<\/a>.
\nMy friend Charles just e-mailed me. MSNBC would like us to know that Britney Spears is not, I repeat not, a virgin<\/a>. I guess the whole thing about the President lying in his State of the Union speech<\/a> just doesn’t measure up to our need to know that some no-talent bubble gum pop star had her cherry popped.
\nMaybe my next post will be about bunnies and rainbows…<\/p>\n

[Listening to: One Nation Under a Groove – George Clinton + P-Funk – (7:23)<\/strong>]<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Cell phone ringtones that sound like you’re at the zoo. Can’t wait. But it’s probably better than that god-awful Auld Lang Syne ring. Yes, I know that nation building is not a walk in the park. Nevertheless, the continued barrage of attacks against American troops in Iraq makes it difficult to keep claiming that we […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-28","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}