{"id":5171,"date":"2012-01-08T03:36:54","date_gmt":"2012-01-08T08:36:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=5171"},"modified":"2012-01-09T00:38:00","modified_gmt":"2012-01-09T05:38:00","slug":"this-chinese-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=5171","title":{"rendered":"This Chinese Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking of nations with which we&#8217;ve had <a href=\"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=5175\">on again &#8211; off again relations<\/a> there was a mesmerizing 45 minute long story about China today on the great radio program <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thisamericanlife.org\/radio-archives\/episode\/454\/mr-daisey-and-the-apple-factory\">This American Life<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For those Republicans who are convinced that labor organizations are only a menace the story will be a cold splash of water in the face. Same for Steve Jobs worshipers.<\/p>\n<p>We could do worse than have an American President that can speak Mandarin even if he inexplicably <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national\/huntsman-criticizes-romney-in-mandarin-over-china-policy\/2012\/01\/07\/gIQAHD75hP_story.html\">uses it<\/a> in a Republican Debate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking of nations with which we&#8217;ve had on again &#8211; off again relations there was a mesmerizing 45 minute long story about China today&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,91,71],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5171"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5171"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5200,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5171\/revisions\/5200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}