{"id":2262,"date":"2005-05-16T12:26:00","date_gmt":"2005-05-16T12:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=2262"},"modified":"2018-06-08T16:10:32","modified_gmt":"2018-06-08T21:10:32","slug":"whos-worse-the-fool-or-the-fool-who-badmouths-his-country-in-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2005\/05\/16\/whos-worse-the-fool-or-the-fool-who-badmouths-his-country-in-france\/","title":{"rendered":"Who&#8217;s Worse, the Fool or the Fool Who Badmouths His Country in France?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Picture <a href=\"http:\/\/www.japantoday.com\/e\/?content=news&#038;cat=8&#038;id=337337\" target=\"_new\">this text<\/a> scrolling up the screen before <i>Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith<\/i>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Lucas, speaking to reporters, emphasised that the original &#8220;Star Wars&#8221; was written at the end of the Vietnam war, when Richard Nixon was U.S. president, but that the issue being explored was still very much alive today.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The issue was, how does a democracy turn itself into a dictatorship?&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When I wrote it, Iraq (the U.S.-led war) didn&#8217;t exist&#8230; but the parallels of what we did in Vietnam and Iraq are unbelievable.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He acknowledged an uncomfortable feeling that the United States was in danger of losing its democratic ideals, like in the movie.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I didn&#8217;t think it was going to get this close. I hope this doesn&#8217;t come true in our country.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Picture this text scrolling up the screen before Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith: Lucas, speaking to reporters, emphasised that the original &#8220;Star Wars&#8221; was written at the end of the Vietnam war, when Richard Nixon was U.S. president, but that the issue being explored was still very much alive today. &#8220;The issue [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2262"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20105,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2262\/revisions\/20105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}