{"id":240,"date":"2004-07-26T17:26:00","date_gmt":"2004-07-26T17:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/2004\/07\/26\/what-country-is-this-anyway\/"},"modified":"2004-07-26T17:26:00","modified_gmt":"2004-07-26T17:26:00","slug":"what-country-is-this-anyway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/2004\/07\/26\/what-country-is-this-anyway\/","title":{"rendered":"What Country Is This, Anyway?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The coveted Asparagus Pee Doh! Award...\" hspace=\"10\" src=\"http:\/\/home.inreach.com\/chrisandjanet\/weblog\/doh.jpg\" align=\"left\" vspace=\"15\" border=\"0\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/poll.excite.com\/poll\/home.jsp?cat_id=1\">Excite Today&#8217;s Poll<\/a> today asked whether or not the US should ever use physical torture on detainees, and the majority said, &#8220;Sure, why not &#8211; whatever it takes.&#8221; <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n     Do you think that the United States should ever use<br \/>\n     physical torture on the people it detains? <\/p>\n<p>\n     Yes, in some circumstances 54% => 5420 votes <br \/>\n     No, never 41% => 4143 votes <br \/>\n     I&#8217;m not sure 3% => 395 votes <br \/>\n     I don&#8217;t care 0% => 61 votes <br \/>\n     Current number of voters: 10019 \n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\nI find this deeply disturbing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excite Today&#8217;s Poll today asked whether or not the US should ever use physical torture on detainees, and the majority said, &#8220;Sure, why not &#8211; whatever it takes.&#8221; Do you think that the United States should ever use physical torture on the people it detains? Yes, in some circumstances 54% => 5420 votes No, never &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/2004\/07\/26\/what-country-is-this-anyway\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;What Country Is This, Anyway?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}