{"id":600,"date":"2007-07-30T09:50:45","date_gmt":"2007-07-30T17:50:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/balafon.net\/?p=600"},"modified":"2007-07-30T09:52:09","modified_gmt":"2007-07-30T17:52:09","slug":"only-on-an-empty-stomach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/?p=600","title":{"rendered":"Only on an Empty Stomach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The next time anyone starts prating about Europeans&#8217; superior culture and artistry (versus Americans&#8217;, for example), have them read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.city-journal.org\/html\/17_3_urbanities-regietheater.html\">this article<\/a>.  But only on an empty stomach &#8212; the article is graphic and disturbing in the extreme.<\/p>\n<p>Europeans may indeed possess a great and noble artistic and cultural <em>heritage<\/em>, but if a tenth of what the article describes is true, this willful desecration must necessarily completely abolish any pretense of present cultural superiority.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The next time anyone starts prating about Europeans&#8217; superior culture and artistry (versus Americans&#8217;, for example), have them read this article. But only on an empty stomach &#8212; the article is graphic and disturbing in the extreme. Europeans may indeed possess a great and noble artistic and cultural heritage, but if a tenth of what &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/balafon.net\/?p=600\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Only on an Empty Stomach&#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":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600","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=600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}