{"id":406,"date":"2004-03-11T21:30:28","date_gmt":"2004-03-11T21:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=406"},"modified":"2004-03-11T21:30:28","modified_gmt":"2004-03-11T21:30:28","slug":"over_there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=406","title":{"rendered":"Over There"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ll be curious to see how much attention Americans will give to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2004\/WORLD\/europe\/03\/11\/spain.blasts\/index.html\">bombings that killed so many in Madrid today<\/a>.  Americans are kind of pre-Copernican in their worldview; we assume that the rest of the world revolves around us and whatever happens here.  And then we shrug our shoulders and change the channel whenever there is a human tragedy somewhere beyond our shores.  Maybe it&#8217;s some weird interplay of geography and psychology.  Being bounded by two oceans probably encourages our isolationist streak.  I thought 9\/11 would force Americans to become more engaged with the world, but that hasn&#8217;t happened.  If anything, it seems that we&#8217;ve turned even more inward.<br \/>\nOne of my work-related perks allowed me to purchase a copy of <a href=\"http:\/\/office.microsoft.com\/home\/default.aspx\">Office 2003<\/a> for only twenty bucks.  I installed it earlier tonight and I&#8217;ve been messing around with it.  I like the new Outlook and the little pop-up that appears when new mail arrives.  And Word has a nice look to it; I&#8217;ve been using Word 2000 the last few years and it always felt kind of klunky to me.  I&#8217;m not sure if all this new software will make me more productive, but it sure looks purty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ll be curious to see how much attention Americans will give to the bombings that killed so many in Madrid today. Americans are kind of pre-Copernican in their worldview; we assume that the rest of the world revolves around us and whatever happens here. And then we shrug our shoulders and change the channel whenever <a href='https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=406' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/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-406","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-6y","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406","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=406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}