{"id":778,"date":"2005-01-09T23:03:24","date_gmt":"2005-01-09T10:03:24","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=778"},"modified":"2005-01-11T23:02:32","modified_gmt":"2005-01-11T10:02:32","slug":"internationalists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/archives\/778","title":{"rendered":"Internationalists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I hear news reports of events in far-off lands, I never know whether or not I can trust them. I get these little bursts of infotainment and they feed my apathetic tendencies. I don&#8217;t want to be apathetic. I want to know if I can help. Regularly I get the strong impression that in topical conversations we&#8217;re all just pooling our ignorance. <\/p>\n<p>Today I had an idea (not dissimilar to some <a title=\"I wish he had more material available online\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gideonstrauss.com\/2004\/02\/i-was-quite-sure-that-this-already.html\">suggestions from Calvin Seerveld<\/a>): each of us could choose one pet region or country or people-group and learn about it as a long-term project. This way when that country comes up in the news there&#8217;ll be one person near whose opinion will be worth hearing.<\/p>\n<p>I choose Siberia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I hear news reports of events in far-off lands, I never know whether or not I can trust them. I get these little bursts of infotainment and they feed my apathetic tendencies. I don&#8217;t want to be apathetic. I want to know if I can help. Regularly I get the strong impression that in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-link"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}