{"id":1569,"date":"2010-09-22T20:59:30","date_gmt":"2010-09-23T01:59:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/?p=1569"},"modified":"2021-11-27T22:11:41","modified_gmt":"2021-11-28T03:11:41","slug":"third-world-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/2010\/09\/22\/third-world-america\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Third World America’ : How the world (or, er, one magazine in Canada) see the US"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Sept. 20, 2010 issue of Maclean’s Magazine (a Canadian newsweekly, much like Time or Newsweek) offers us an article entitled “Third World America: Collapsing bridges, street lights turned off…:the decline of a superpower<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

Do you you agree or disagree with that sentiment?<\/p>\n

A pull-quote from the article:<\/p>\n

A pared-down police force, how can people be safe, a county judge was asked: “Arm yourselves.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So, is this the unvarnished truth or merely scare tactics?\u00c2\u00a0 What do you think?\u00c2\u00a0 Where are we headed as a country, economically- and culturally-speaking?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Sept. 20, 2010 issue of Maclean’s Magazine (a Canadian newsweekly, much like Time or Newsweek) offers us an article entitled “Third World America: Collapsing bridges, street lights turned off…:the decline of a superpower.” Do you you agree or disagree with that sentiment? A pull-quote from the article: A pared-down police force, how can people … Continue reading ‘Third World America’ : How the world (or, er, one magazine in Canada) see the US<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5,1],"tags":[155,153,152,154,151],"class_list":["post-1569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-did-you-know","category-general","category-information","tag-article","tag-economy","tag-macleans","tag-magazine","tag-thirdworldamerica"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1569"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10221,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1569\/revisions\/10221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}