{"id":701,"date":"2008-08-13T20:14:56","date_gmt":"2008-08-14T00:14:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scaredpoet.com\/wordpress\/?p=701"},"modified":"2008-08-12T20:17:57","modified_gmt":"2008-08-13T00:17:57","slug":"georgia-on-my-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/?p=701","title":{"rendered":"Georgia on My Mind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, let&#8217;s all get one thing clear.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canberratimes.com.au\/news\/local\/news\/general\/russia-orders-troops-to-halt\/1242575.aspx\">Russia invaded Georgia this week, then agreed to a cease-fire<\/a>.  No, not <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Georgia_(U.S._state)\">that Georgia<\/a>.  But rather <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Georgia_(country)\">this Georgia<\/a>.  That&#8217;s right, Peaches and Coca-Cola are still safe.<\/p>\n<p>But still those of us who know our Georgias have to wonder: were any Georgians really thinking that Atlanta was burning?  This little gem on Yahoo! Answers would seem to indicate yes:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/images\/georegia.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/georegia_small.png\" alt=\"georegia\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/answers.yahoo.com\/question\/index?qid=20080808091149AA3VGTk\">actual answer has been deleted<\/a>.  But the <a href=\"\/images\/georegia_small.png\">image capture, complete with answers, is right here.<\/a> \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Just a troll, or a really concerned redneck?  It&#8217;s a difficult call.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, let&#8217;s all get one thing clear. Russia invaded Georgia this week, then agreed to a cease-fire. No, not that Georgia. But rather this Georgia. That&#8217;s right, Peaches and Coca-Cola are still safe. But still those of us who know our Georgias have to wonder: were any Georgians really thinking that Atlanta was burning? This [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sociopolitical-rants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}