{"id":436,"date":"2005-11-03T10:18:31","date_gmt":"2005-11-03T17:18:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/balafon.net\/?p=436"},"modified":"2005-11-03T10:18:31","modified_gmt":"2005-11-03T17:18:31","slug":"mad-maxine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/?p=436","title":{"rendered":"Mad Maxine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had been vaguely aware of the social problems plaguing France for some time.  Off-hand remarks that there were areas of Paris the police didn&#8217;t dare venture into, for instance, and the concern over Islamic militancy in immigrant populations.  Given the past week&#8217;s riots, I think this deserves more attention.  Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lileks.com\/bleats\">Lileks<\/a> comes some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.city-journal.org\/html\/12_4_the_barbarians.html\">background on the situation<\/a>, written 3 years ago by Theodore Dalrymple.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had been vaguely aware of the social problems plaguing France for some time. Off-hand remarks that there were areas of Paris the police didn&#8217;t dare venture into, for instance, and the concern over Islamic militancy in immigrant populations. Given the past week&#8217;s riots, I think this deserves more attention. Via Lileks comes some background &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/balafon.net\/?p=436\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mad Maxine&#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-436","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\/436","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=436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}