{"id":3602,"date":"2010-04-30T09:02:10","date_gmt":"2010-04-30T13:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=3602"},"modified":"2010-10-16T11:49:01","modified_gmt":"2010-10-16T15:49:01","slug":"european-map-rationalized","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2010\/04\/30\/european-map-rationalized\/","title":{"rendered":"European map, rationalized"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The Economist<\/em> would like to redraw the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/world\/europe\/displayStory.cfm?story_id=16003661&#038;sa_campaign=twitter\/te\/ar\/hp\" target=\"_blank\">map of Europe:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Europe_Redrawn-480x484.gif\" alt=\"\" title=\"Europe_Redrawn\" width=\"480\" height=\"484\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3603\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Europe_Redrawn-480x484.gif 480w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Europe_Redrawn-148x150.gif 148w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Europe_Redrawn.gif 595w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>People who find their neighbours tiresome can move to another neighbourhood, whereas countries can\u2019t. But suppose they could. Rejigging the map of Europe would make life more logical and friendlier.<\/p>\n<p>Britain, which after its general election will have to confront its dire public finances, should move closer to the southern-European countries that find themselves in a similar position. It could be towed to a new position near the Azores. (If the journey proves a bumpy one, it might be a good opportunity to make Wales and Scotland into separate islands).<\/p>\n<p>In Britain\u2019s place should come Poland, which has suffered quite enough in its location between Russia and Germany and deserves a chance to enjoy the bracing winds of the North Atlantic and the security of sea water between it and any potential invaders.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Economist would like to redraw the map of Europe: People who find their neighbours tiresome can move to another neighbourhood, whereas countries can\u2019t. But suppose they could. Rejigging the map of Europe would make life more logical and friendlier. Britain, which after its general election will have to confront its dire public finances, should [&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":[4,62,57],"tags":[337,624,228],"class_list":["post-3602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain","category-europe","category-humour","tag-eu","tag-maps","tag-poland"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-W6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3602","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=3602"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5878,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3602\/revisions\/5878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}