{"id":733,"date":"2008-07-26T11:53:27","date_gmt":"2008-07-26T15:53:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=733"},"modified":"2008-07-26T11:53:27","modified_gmt":"2008-07-26T15:53:27","slug":"no-one-i-talked-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=733","title":{"rendered":"No one I talked to . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"

In light of the fact that this person<\/a> is an academic and therefore ought to know better, this is a really abysmal premise:<\/p>\n

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WITH gestures that ranged from a wink to a sneer, most anyone you met here this week volunteered the view that Barack Obama’s visit to Europe caused unprecedented frenzy. But it’s been hard for me<\/strong> to find a European, aside from two Harvard-educated friends in Paris, who confessed to excitement — not just about the visit, but the prospect of an Obama presidency. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Try harder.  It's been hard for me to find anyone who voted for Bush or who thinks he has done one single thing right. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In light of the fact that this person is an academic and therefore ought to know better, this is a really abysmal premise: WITH gestures that ranged from a wink to a sneer, most anyone you met here this week volunteered the view that Barack Obama’s visit to Europe caused unprecedented frenzy. But it’s been … Continue reading No one I talked to . . .<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,58],"tags":[241],"class_list":["post-733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academics","category-lack-of-evidence","tag-susan-neiman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}