{"id":3559,"date":"2010-04-27T09:43:32","date_gmt":"2010-04-27T13:43:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=3559"},"modified":"2010-10-16T11:50:08","modified_gmt":"2010-10-16T15:50:08","slug":"almost-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2010\/04\/27\/almost-right\/","title":{"rendered":"Almost right"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/kshaidle\/\" target=\"_blank\">Kathy Shaidle<\/a> linked to <a href=\"http:\/\/spleenville.com\/2010\/04\/26\/europeans-are-sooooo-smart\/\" target=\"_blank\">this map at <em>Spleenville<\/em><\/a>, showing an approximation of how Europeans (and implicitly the rest of the world) view the United States:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/spleenville.com\/2010\/04\/26\/europeans-are-sooooo-smart\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/USA_seen_by_rest_of_world.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"USA_seen_by_rest_of_world\" width=\"502\" height=\"346\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3560\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/USA_seen_by_rest_of_world.jpg 502w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/USA_seen_by_rest_of_world-150x103.jpg 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/USA_seen_by_rest_of_world-480x330.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 502px) 100vw, 502px\" \/><\/a><br \/>(Click map to see original image)<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>[. . .] As a matter of fact, from what I\u2019ve garnered from across the pond, the rest of the world thinks the USA consists of one large metropolis &mdash; Newyorkangeles &mdash; with a sunny beach where only blond, tanned, perfectly-toned twenty-something models are allowed to go, and the rest of it is a desert wasteland full of racist white cowboys who wear big hats and shoot their guns in the air.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>You forgot the teeth: Europeans all seem to believe that Americans all have identical &#8220;Hollywood&#8221; smiles. Oh, except for the gun-toting racist yahoos, who only have a few teeth each.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathy Shaidle linked to this map at Spleenville, showing an approximation of how Europeans (and implicitly the rest of the world) view the United States: (Click map to see original image) [. . .] As a matter of fact, from what I\u2019ve garnered from across the pond, the rest of the world thinks the USA [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,57,28,13],"tags":[49,624,122,384,99,101],"class_list":["post-3559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe","category-humour","category-media","category-usa","tag-guns","tag-maps","tag-movies","tag-newyork","tag-racism","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-Vp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3559"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5879,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3559\/revisions\/5879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}