{"id":10460,"date":"2005-07-05T09:39:39","date_gmt":"2005-07-05T09:39:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/samhilliard.com\/wordpress?p=10460"},"modified":"2005-07-05T09:39:39","modified_gmt":"2005-07-05T09:39:39","slug":"why-i-like-belgians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/2005\/07\/05\/why-i-like-belgians\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I like Belgians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently there are indignities Belgian won&#8217;t suffer, even under penalty of international embarrassment and ridicule.  They are a tolerant and wise nation, but do not ask them to <a href='http:\/\/politics.yahoo.com\/s\/nm\/20050630\/od_nm\/iran_alcohol_dc'>forgo beer at lunch.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Members of Iran and Belgian&#8217;s parliaments were set to meet in a power luncheon in Belgium when Iranian Diplomats requested that their Dutch speaking counterparts not serve alcohol. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Even for the tolerant Herman De Croo, that was a bridge too far,&#8221; De Croo, a Dutch-speaking Liberal, told De Standaard daily Thursday. <\/p>\n<p>Alcohol free lunch&#8230;bridge too far&#8230;got it.  <\/p>\n<p>Now I understand why there hasn&#8217;t been a new drug introduced on the European Market in over ten years.   What&#8217;s left undone before lunch is what is left undone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently there are indignities Belgian won&#8217;t suffer, even under penalty of international embarrassment and ridicule. They are a tolerant and wise nation, but do not ask them to forgo beer at lunch. Members of Iran and Belgian&#8217;s parliaments were set to meet in a power luncheon in Belgium when Iranian Diplomats requested that their Dutch [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10460\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}