{"id":107,"date":"2004-11-04T13:01:27","date_gmt":"2004-11-04T20:01:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/blog\/?p=105"},"modified":"2004-11-04T13:01:27","modified_gmt":"2004-11-04T20:01:27","slug":"expatriating-true-patriots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/2004\/11\/04\/expatriating-true-patriots\/","title":{"rendered":"Expatriating true patriots"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"storycontent\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/brendanthemes.com\/\">Brendan<\/a> linked to <a href=\"http:\/\/harpers.org\/ElectingToLeave.html\"> this story from Harper&rsquo;s<\/a><br \/> on his blog, which I thought was amusing and interesting.<br \/> I particularly like France&rsquo;s approach, and the idea of:<br \/> <em>heckling the United States with authentic Gallic zeal<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>There is certainly a moral quandary here;<br \/> something about quitting when the fight gets tough,<br \/> or when things aren&rsquo;t going the way you want them to.<br \/> But if you respect America&rsquo;s freedoms, you have to<br \/> also respect the freedom to leave.<br \/> Remember, the USA itself was founded by quitters;<br \/> they thought British rule was oppressive and didn&rsquo;t<br \/> fit their ideals, and so they made a new start elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe I won&rsquo;t go, and perhaps one day I&rsquo;ll<br \/> start my own nation.  But really, I&rsquo;ve always wanted<br \/> to move to Montreal anyway (for pure and non-poli reasons)<br \/> and now just seems like the perfect opportunity.<br \/> I suppose I could even start to like hockey.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brendan linked to this story from Harper&rsquo;s on his blog, which I thought was amusing and interesting. I particularly like France&rsquo;s approach, and the idea of: heckling the United States with authentic Gallic zeal. There is certainly a moral quandary here; something about quitting when the fight gets tough, or when things aren&rsquo;t going the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}