{"id":56,"date":"2007-06-11T20:44:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-12T02:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danflies.wordpress.com\/2007\/06\/11\/an-excellent-observation"},"modified":"2007-06-11T20:44:00","modified_gmt":"2007-06-12T02:44:00","slug":"an-excellent-observation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danflies.com\/blog\/an-excellent-observation\/","title":{"rendered":"An excellent observation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float:right;margin-left:10px;margin-bottom:10px;\"> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/22905547@N00\/29527200\/\" title=\"photo sharing\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/22\/29527200_4f8882b811_m.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a> <br \/> <span style=\"font-size:.9em;margin-top:0;\">  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/22905547@N00\/29527200\/\">france_train<\/a>  <br \/>  Originally uploaded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/22905547@N00\/\">akinastar01<\/a>. <\/span><\/div>\n<p>A Slate article about how corporate culture is still rooted in Benedictine traditions.  But the thing I noticed was his commentary on how Britain and America bet on roads and France bet on trains.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Years ago, the French made a bet on railways and went about building high-speed lines across France. They have won the argument: Britain and the United States look backward by comparison. The transportation legacy of Margaret Thatcher was miles of new roads and nothing but more traffic and pollution. Her wish on her first day in office in 1979 was to bring harmony where there was discord. On London streets and on British highways, you can now come across drivers who not only look as if they want to kill you, they drive as if they are trying to kill you.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>france_train Originally uploaded by akinastar01. A Slate article about how corporate culture is still rooted in Benedictine traditions. But the thing I noticed was his commentary on how Britain and America bet on roads and France bet on trains. Years ago, the French made a bet on railways and went about building high-speed lines across [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danflies.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danflies.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danflies.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danflies.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danflies.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/danflies.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danflies.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danflies.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danflies.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}