{"id":98,"date":"2003-12-04T20:02:23","date_gmt":"2003-12-05T01:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/macphoenix.com\/?p=98"},"modified":"2022-12-11T21:09:49","modified_gmt":"2022-12-12T02:09:49","slug":"the-problem-with-western-civilization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/macphoenix.com\/index.php\/2003\/12\/the-problem-with-western-civilization\/","title":{"rendered":"The Problem with Western Civilization"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Offered as Peoples&#8217; Exhibit A, your Honor. Upon visiting China for the 2003 Miss World Contest, Miss United States, 20-year old, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pageant.com\/kimharlan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kim Harlan<\/a>, had this to say, &#8220;I thought everyone would be wearing, you know, little Asian outfits, but they&#8217;re <em>perfectly normal<\/em>, you know, just the way we dress up.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fineprint\">Emphasis added. Quote from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marketplace.org\/shows\/2003\/12\/04_mpp.html#4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Marketplace<\/a> on NPR.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Offered as Peoples&#8217; Exhibit A, your Honor. Upon visiting China for the 2003 Miss World Contest, Miss United States, 20-year old, Kim Harlan, had this to say, &#8220;I thought everyone would be wearing, you know, little Asian outfits, but they&#8217;re perfectly normal, you know, just the way we dress up.&#8221; Emphasis added. Quote from Marketplace [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_import_markdown_pro_load_document_selector":0,"_import_markdown_pro_submit_text_textarea":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rant"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8nj3d-1A","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/macphoenix.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/macphoenix.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/macphoenix.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macphoenix.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macphoenix.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/macphoenix.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":996,"href":"https:\/\/macphoenix.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions\/996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/macphoenix.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macphoenix.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macphoenix.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}