{"id":1478,"date":"2011-09-25T09:09:39","date_gmt":"2011-09-25T07:09:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.quisquilia.net\/nova_blog\/wordpress\/?p=1478"},"modified":"2013-01-06T23:15:46","modified_gmt":"2013-01-06T21:15:46","slug":"south-western-moments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quisquilia.net\/nova_blog\/wordpress\/south-western-moments-1478.html","title":{"rendered":"South-Western Moments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The Southern moment<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A mid-aged man, in his 50s, white collar shirt buttoned up, slowly moving towards the exit, his belly, pronounced, framed prominently by suspenders; right behind, following on to him, a young woman of Indian descent, dark skin, on suit, painstakingly taking notes; &#8212; as assistant.<\/p>\n<p><em>(dinner at <a href=\"http:\/\/nymag.com\/listings\/restaurant\/el-centro\/\">El Centro<\/a>, 824 9th Ave \/ 54th St, 22.08.)<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1479\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.quisquilia.net\/nova_blog\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/q_tiles_59st_cc.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1479\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.quisquilia.net\/nova_blog\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/q_tiles_59st_cc.jpg\" alt=\"59th St \/ Columbus Circle 1904 tiles exposition\" title=\"59th St \/ Columbus Circle 1904 tiles exposition\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1479\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.quisquilia.net\/nova_blog\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/q_tiles_59st_cc.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.quisquilia.net\/nova_blog\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/q_tiles_59st_cc-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1479\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">59th St \/ Columbus Circle 1904 tiles exposition<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em>The Western decline<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Speaking from a European perspective, health care reform in the States is just a tiny, tiptoey step into the right direction. Isn&#8217;t it odd that a nation which took so bold to the West, manifest destiny, yadda yadda &#8211;; now proves so scared of even teensy-weensy steps towards Western civilisation?<\/p>\n<p><em>(in the context of the <a href=\"http:\/\/elections.nytimes.com\/2012\/primaries\/candidates\">GOP presidential<\/a> debates, at Fox News, 19.09.)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Southern moment A mid-aged man, in his 50s, white collar shirt buttoned up, slowly moving towards the exit, his belly, pronounced, framed prominently by suspenders; right behind, following on to him, a young woman of Indian descent, dark skin, on suit, painstakingly taking notes; &#8212; as assistant. (dinner at El Centro, 824 9th Ave [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[40,12],"tags":[3,25,35,16,45],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quisquilia.net\/nova_blog\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1478"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quisquilia.net\/nova_blog\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quisquilia.net\/nova_blog\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quisquilia.net\/nova_blog\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quisquilia.net\/nova_blog\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1478"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.quisquilia.net\/nova_blog\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2009,"href":"https:\/\/www.quisquilia.net\/nova_blog\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1478\/revisions\/2009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quisquilia.net\/nova_blog\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quisquilia.net\/nova_blog\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quisquilia.net\/nova_blog\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}