{"id":2407,"date":"2007-07-03T16:10:45","date_gmt":"2007-07-03T23:10:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2007\/07\/03\/two-ill-begotten-traditions-of-july-4th\/"},"modified":"2007-07-03T16:10:45","modified_gmt":"2007-07-03T23:10:45","slug":"two-ill-begotten-traditions-of-july-4th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2007\/07\/03\/two-ill-begotten-traditions-of-july-4th\/","title":{"rendered":"Two ill begotten traditions of July 4th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>#1:\u00c2\u00a0 That stupid hot dog eating competition, sponsored by someone who I don&#8217;t care to remember that deals in hot dogs, shown on ESPN 2 or thereabouts.<\/p>\n<p>#2:\u00c2\u00a0 The most jingoistic movie of the last decade and a half: Independence Day.\u00c2\u00a0 There is much to be said about this movie &#8212; how it was basically billed as a huge budget B-Movie and you have to suspend disbelief in the multitude plot holes and leaps of faith the audience is supposed to make, but what I will say is that it is a fun movie to watch with a foreigner, who won&#8217;t help but get a little mad at some of the relentless panderings to American.<\/p>\n<p>I already celebrated Canada Day, so I think I&#8217;m fully covered for Independence Day.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 When&#8217;s Bastille Day?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>#1:\u00c2\u00a0 That stupid hot dog eating competition, sponsored by someone who I don&#8217;t care to remember that deals in hot dogs, shown on ESPN 2 or thereabouts. #2:\u00c2\u00a0 The most jingoistic movie of the last decade and a half: Independence Day.\u00c2\u00a0 There is much to be said about this movie &#8212; how it was basically [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2407\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}