{"id":19155,"date":"2014-12-23T12:55:56","date_gmt":"2014-12-23T17:55:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=19155"},"modified":"2014-12-23T12:57:30","modified_gmt":"2014-12-23T17:57:30","slug":"infrastructure-advances-in-the-rest-of-the-world-will-blow-your-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2014\/12\/23\/infrastructure-advances-in-the-rest-of-the-world-will-blow-your-mind\/","title":{"rendered":"Infrastructure advances in the rest-of-the-world will blow your mind."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The Daily Kos<\/em> has the post <a title=\"The Daily Kos article\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2014\/12\/21\/1353411\/-Infrastructure-advances-in-the-rest-of-the-world-will-blow-your-mind\" target=\"_blank\">Infrastructure advances in the rest-of-the-world will blow your mind<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>While we&#8217;re &#8220;debating&#8221; torture, access to basic health care and the veracity of climate change, the rest-of-the-world is simply advancing transformational infrastructure like you would not believe.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It is sad to think that the major bipartisan debate in this country is whether or not we should go backward or stand-still while the rest of the world is moving forward.\u00a0 At best if we compromise between our two choices, we still won&#8217;t be moving forward.<\/p>\n<p>So far, these other countries have managed to create enough problems for themselves so that their advances have not surpassed their self-imposed roadblocks.\u00a0 Or is it that the over-hyped averages in this country hide the fact that our medians are falling behind the medians in other countries?<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to <a title=\"Elizabeth Ann St John's Facebook page\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/elizabethann.stjohn\" target=\"_blank\">Elizabeth Ann St John<\/a> for sharing this on her Facebook page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Daily Kos has the post Infrastructure advances in the rest-of-the-world will blow your mind. While we&#8217;re &#8220;debating&#8221; torture, access to basic health care and the veracity of climate change, the rest-of-the-world is simply advancing transformational infrastructure like you would not believe. It is sad to think that the major bipartisan debate in this country [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-19155","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19155"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19158,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19155\/revisions\/19158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}