{"id":263,"date":"2007-05-15T23:41:36","date_gmt":"2007-05-15T22:41:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canicula.com\/wp\/?p=263"},"modified":"2007-05-15T23:41:36","modified_gmt":"2007-05-15T22:41:36","slug":"the-world-is-a-better-place-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canicula.com\/wp\/the-world-is-a-better-place-today\/","title":{"rendered":"The world is a better place today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And the overall intelligence quotient just went up as well. <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/world\/americas\/6659457.stm\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"BBC News post\">Here&#8217;s why<\/a>. You shouldn&#8217;t speak ill etc.<\/p>\n<p>But good riddance.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/somewaterythoughts.blogspot.com\/2007\/05\/jerry-falwell-is-dead.html\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"External link to blog\">SomeWateryTart<\/a> sums it up well.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update 2<\/strong>: Christopher Hitchens tells it like it was, indeed is in the case of the other kooks he mentions. See YouTube video below:<br \/>\n<object width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/YkAPaEMwyKU\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/YkAPaEMwyKU\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And the overall intelligence quotient just went up as well. Here&#8217;s why. You shouldn&#8217;t speak ill etc. But good riddance. Update: SomeWateryTart sums it up well. Update 2: Christopher Hitchens tells it like it was, indeed is in the case of the other kooks he mentions. See YouTube video below:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[18],"class_list":["post-263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-rationality","post_format-post-format-aside"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canicula.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canicula.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canicula.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canicula.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canicula.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canicula.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canicula.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canicula.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canicula.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}