{"id":10,"date":"2005-05-31T05:50:00","date_gmt":"2005-05-31T13:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/?p=10"},"modified":"2005-05-31T05:50:00","modified_gmt":"2005-05-31T13:50:00","slug":"back-in-the-ussa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/back-in-the-ussa\/","title":{"rendered":"Back in the U.S.S.A"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Back in the U.S.S.A &#8212; more as I get de-jetlagged &#8212; but my thoughts are still with the resonant NO the French referendum threw in the face of the possibility of a political (rather than economic) Europe. Fascinating late night tv roundtable debates with the whole spectrum of ideas (from Le Pen&#8217;s fascist daughter to the young postman who leads the LCR, the Revolutionary Communist League, via Daniel Cohn-Bendit, aka Danny the Red, now Euro-parlementarian, Chiracians such as Dominique de Villepin who just this morning was made French prime minister (he&#8217;s the one who delivered the French opposition to the war in Iraq speech ay the UN) and various sides of the Socialist party, and the old rotten never-completely- de-stalinized PC. Each got equal time, though of course many talked at the same time, in classic French &#8216;Caf\u00e9 du Commerce&#8217; fashion. Two hours without commercial interruptions (well, there was a break after the first hour, &#038; adds flowed for a solid 5 minutes). Intelligent oral debate, informative exchange &amp; analysis of complex ideas through the medium of television is not only <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">possible<\/span>, but, as was the case in this instance, highly entertaining.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in the U.S.S.A &#8212; more as I get de-jetlagged &#8212; but my thoughts are still with the resonant NO the French referendum threw in the face of the possibility of a political (rather&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/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-10","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}