{"id":1123270,"date":"2023-07-07T05:47:53","date_gmt":"2023-07-07T05:47:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=288242"},"modified":"2023-07-07T05:47:53","modified_gmt":"2023-07-07T05:47:53","slug":"coming-to-terms-with-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/07\/07\/coming-to-terms-with-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Coming to Terms With America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No, I wasn\u2019t exploding firecrackers on July 4th (nor on New Year\u2019s Eve either, when private rockets fill Berlin skies). Here, too, I am safely distant from possible crazy AR-15 attacks, though very aware of many people\u2019s fears on this date. Yet, despite all doubts, despite fearful weaponry, at home or abroad, I consider myself  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/07\/07\/coming-to-terms-with-america\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/07\/07\/coming-to-terms-with-america\/\">Coming to Terms With America<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/07\/07\/coming-to-terms-with-america\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No, I wasn\u2019t exploding firecrackers on July 4th (nor on New Year\u2019s Eve either, when private rockets fill Berlin skies). Here, too, I am safely distant from possible crazy AR-15 attacks, though very aware of many people\u2019s fears on this date. Yet, despit&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1222,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1123270"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1222"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1123270"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1123270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1124893,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1123270\/revisions\/1124893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1123270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1123270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1123270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}