{"id":270,"date":"2004-11-29T08:14:00","date_gmt":"2004-11-29T16:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/smorgasbord\/"},"modified":"2004-11-29T08:14:00","modified_gmt":"2004-11-29T16:14:00","slug":"smorgasbord","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2004\/11\/29\/smorgasbord\/","title":{"rendered":"Smorgasbord"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scandinavia seems like such a peaceful place. Maybe they got all the lust for violence out of their system with the whole Viking thing; or maybe it&#8217;s still there, just bubbling below the surface, invisible to an outsider like me.<\/p>\n<p>Returning to reality, and taking a quick tour around the news and the blogs, uncovers too many sad stories and reasons for disgust to really keep track of. Here&#8217;s a little list, so you can choose to target your outrage according to your geo-political predilections. <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/International\/wireStory?id=288533\">Pakistan<\/a> <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/story.news.yahoo.com\/news?tmpl=story&#038;cid=1511&amp;amp;amp;ncid=1511&#038;e=7&amp;u=\/afp\/20041129\/wl_afp\/myanmar_politics_041129150708\">Burma<\/a><br \/>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/israel\/Story\/0,2763,1361755,00.html\">Israel<\/a> <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/cp\/world\/041125\/w112544.html\">Sudan<\/a> <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesreporter.com\/left.php?ID=36073&#038;r=0\">Iraq<\/a> <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/examinedlife.typepad.com\/johnbelle\/2004\/11\/take_that_hippi.html\">United States<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>No claim is made to being exhaustive.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scandinavia seems like such a peaceful place. Maybe they got all the lust for violence out of their system with the whole Viking thing; or maybe it&#8217;s still there, just bubbling below the surface, invisible to an outsider like me. Returning to reality, and taking a quick tour around the news and the blogs, uncovers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellany"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}