{"id":409,"date":"2004-07-03T22:18:18","date_gmt":"2004-07-04T05:18:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/?p=409"},"modified":"2008-04-15T22:20:55","modified_gmt":"2008-04-16T05:20:55","slug":"the-progressive-case-for-patriotism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/2004\/07\/03\/the-progressive-case-for-patriotism\/","title":{"rendered":"The Progressive Case for Patriotism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Colin Powell does a <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/world\/asia-pacific\/3861901.stm\" target=\"_blank\">disco                   number<\/a>. The US isn&#8217;t the only nation <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/world\/americas\/3862173.stm\" target=\"_blank\">having                   a problem with guns<\/a> \u2013 Brazil&#8217;s gun ban goes into                   effect.<\/p>\n<p>Marlon Brando moves to the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/entertainment\/film\/3861657.stm\" target=\"_blank\">big                   gig in the sky<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>&#8220;There                         are too many ideas and things and people. Too many directions                         to go. I was starting to believe the reason it matters                         to care passionately about something is that it whittles                         the world down to a more manageable size.&#8221;<\/strong><br \/>\nThe Orchid Thief by                           Susan Orlean, from Adaptation<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Utah Boy Scouts <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/5359048\" target=\"_blank\">sell                   $250 glasses of lemonade<\/a> to defray likely arson charge                   for state Scout Council.<br \/>\nStudents start to worry about a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/4760088\/site\/newsweek\/\" target=\"_blank\">possible                   draft next year<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Great article on AlterNet: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/stories\/19146\/\" target=\"_blank\">The                   Progressive Case for Patriotism<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"facebook\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share.php?u=https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/2004\/07\/03\/the-progressive-case-for-patriotism\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share on Facebook\">Share on Facebook<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colin Powell does a disco number. The US isn&#8217;t the only nation having a problem with guns \u2013 Brazil&#8217;s gun ban goes into effect. Marlon Brando moves to the big gig in the sky. &#8220;There are too many ideas and things and people. Too many directions to go. I was starting to believe the reason &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/2004\/07\/03\/the-progressive-case-for-patriotism\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Progressive Case for Patriotism&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"facebook\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share.php?u=https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/2004\/07\/03\/the-progressive-case-for-patriotism\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share on Facebook\">Share on Facebook<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}