{"id":462,"date":"2008-11-06T11:18:12","date_gmt":"2008-11-06T03:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.jiinjoo.com\/?p=462"},"modified":"2008-11-06T11:18:12","modified_gmt":"2008-11-06T03:18:12","slug":"the-world-celebrates-the-end-of-the-american-civil-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.jiinjoo.com\/?p=462","title":{"rendered":"The World Celebrates the End of the American Civil War"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.coxandforkum.com\/archives\/CARI.Obama.gif\" alt=\"Obama!\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Finally, we have a clear benchmark, a meaningful yardstick (granted all the other confluence of factors) to measure how long it takes for a nation to rid itself of deeply rooted racism in this globalized world. 147 years.<\/p>\n<p>Read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/11\/05\/opinion\/05friedman.html\" target=\"_blank\">Friedman&#8217;s OpEd on NYTimes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If we start counting from &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/May_13_Incident\" target=\"_blank\">back in the summer of 69<\/a>&#8220;, then 147 years would mean the year 2116. Don&#8217;t think I can live so long&#8230; *sigh*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finally, we have a clear benchmark, a meaningful yardstick (granted all the other confluence of factors) to measure&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-malaysia","content-wrap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.jiinjoo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.jiinjoo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.jiinjoo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jiinjoo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jiinjoo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jiinjoo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.jiinjoo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jiinjoo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jiinjoo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}