{"id":639,"date":"2004-08-05T23:44:34","date_gmt":"2004-08-06T04:44:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alevin.com\/?p=639"},"modified":"2004-08-05T23:44:34","modified_gmt":"2004-08-06T04:44:34","slug":"frog-boiling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/?p=639","title":{"rendered":"frog-boiling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/articles\/A43787-2004Aug5.html\">Washington DC<\/a> closes streets, puts up security checkpoints.<br \/>\nIn the words of a taxi-driver interviewd by the Washington Post:  &#8220;During the Cold War with the Soviet Union, you didn&#8217;t see this kind of thing,&#8221; the 49-year-old Nigerian immigrant said. &#8220;Fear shouldn&#8217;t grip the nation like this. It&#8217;s demoralizing that a few people could cause a wall of change that affects the city&#8217;s character and image of this country.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington DC closes streets, puts up security checkpoints. In the words of a taxi-driver interviewd by the Washington Post: &#8220;During the Cold War with the Soviet Union, you didn&#8217;t see this kind of thing,&#8221; the 49-year-old Nigerian immigrant said. &#8220;Fear shouldn&#8217;t grip the nation like this. It&#8217;s demoralizing that a few people could cause a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/?p=639\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;frog-boiling&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prDRq-aj","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}