{"id":1285,"date":"2003-06-12T17:01:09","date_gmt":"2003-06-13T07:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/06\/12\/if-this-country-fails\/"},"modified":"2019-12-06T08:35:41","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T16:35:41","slug":"if-this-country-fails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/06\/12\/if-this-country-fails\/","title":{"rendered":"If this country fails"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:14439,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/news.bbc.co.uk\\\/2\\\/hi\\\/americas\\\/2979960.stm&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260312225039\\\/http:\\\/\\\/news.bbc.co.uk\\\/2\\\/hi\\\/americas\\\/2979960.stm&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:14440,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.outlandishjosh.com\\\/index.php?p=207&amp;c=1&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260312225004\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.outlandishjosh.com\\\/index.php?p=207&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.outlandishjosh.com\\\/index.php?p=207&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<blockquote><p>\n  I think that what drives me to keep going is the knowledge that if this country fails, then a beacon for the world is lost. And this country is headed for failure under this president.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8212; Howard Dean, in this <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/americas\/2979960.stm\" title=\"Democrat dove facing uphill battle\">BBC interview<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.outlandishjosh.com\/index.php?p=207&amp;c=1\" title=\"Building steam\">Josh<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think that what drives me to keep going is the knowledge that if this country fails, then a beacon for the world is lost. And this country is headed for failure under this president.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2042],"tags":[14,16],"class_list":["post-1285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-politics","tag-quotes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1285\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}