{"id":8726,"date":"2011-04-08T13:39:38","date_gmt":"2011-04-08T17:39:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=8726"},"modified":"2011-04-08T13:39:38","modified_gmt":"2011-04-08T17:39:38","slug":"qotd-the-international-double-standard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2011\/04\/08\/qotd-the-international-double-standard\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: the international double standard"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>A long time ago we had a president who was doing a chubby intern.<\/p>\n<p>And some Americans got uptight about it.<\/p>\n<p>And we were told by Europeans everywhere &#8216;Relax, it&#8217;s just sex. He&#8217;s the leader of the country, they have mistresses, it happens get <em>over<\/em> it you uptight prudes.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>So now with Silvio Berlusconi having sex with underage prostitutes and orgies and I don&#8217;t know <em>what<\/em>-all I guess that makes Europe &mdash; and Italy in particular &mdash; about eighteen <em>times<\/em> more sophisticated [1] than us hicks in the United States and so-on and so-forth.<\/p>\n<p>Y&#8217;all must be so proud.<\/p>\n<p>[1] Sarcasm.<\/p>\n<p>Brian Dunbar, <a href=\"http:\/\/space4commerce.blogspot.com\/2011\/04\/sophisticated-europe.html\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Sophisticated Europe&#8221;, <em>Space for Commerce, by Brian Dunbar<\/em><\/a>, 2011-04-07<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A long time ago we had a president who was doing a chubby intern. And some Americans got uptight about it. And we were told by Europeans everywhere &#8216;Relax, it&#8217;s just sex. He&#8217;s the leader of the country, they have mistresses, it happens get over it you uptight prudes.&#8217; So now with Silvio Berlusconi having [&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":[62,57,339,41,13],"tags":[669,255],"class_list":["post-8726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe","category-humour","category-italy","category-quotations","category-usa","tag-billclinton","tag-sexuality"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-2gK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8726","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=8726"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8727,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8726\/revisions\/8727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}