{"id":371,"date":"2005-02-14T10:53:21","date_gmt":"2005-02-14T17:53:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/balafon.net\/?p=371"},"modified":"2005-02-15T09:33:18","modified_gmt":"2005-02-15T16:33:18","slug":"home-of-the-brave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/?p=371","title":{"rendered":"Home of the Brave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A little belated, here&#8217;s Mark Steyn on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/opinion\/main.jhtml;sessionid=ILPTL23WMYFGBQFIQMGSM5OAVCBQWJVC?xml=\/opinion\/2005\/02\/01\/do0101.xml&#038;sSheet=\/opinion\/2005\/02\/01\/ixop.html\">the Iraqi elections<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I liked the picture of some grizzled beaming Arab so proud of his purple finger that he dipped a second one and then raised both to the camera &#8211; flipping the V sign, or so I like to think, to the BBC, to Sir Simon Jenkins, to Do-Nothing Doug Hurd, to those Spanish protesters and the rest of the quagmire fetishists. Even the most benign liberator can&#8217;t &#8220;give&#8221; liberty to someone: you have to want it, and take it for yourself.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Hat tip: <a href=\"http:\/\/chrenkoff.blogspot.com\">Chrenkoff<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A little belated, here&#8217;s Mark Steyn on the Iraqi elections. I liked the picture of some grizzled beaming Arab so proud of his purple finger that he dipped a second one and then raised both to the camera &#8211; flipping the V sign, or so I like to think, to the BBC, to Sir Simon &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/balafon.net\/?p=371\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Home of the Brave&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}