{"id":10525,"date":"2005-10-10T22:22:48","date_gmt":"2005-10-11T02:22:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/2005\/10\/10\/truth-justice-and-the-italian-way\/"},"modified":"2005-10-10T22:22:48","modified_gmt":"2005-10-11T02:22:48","slug":"truth-justice-and-the-italian-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/2005\/10\/10\/truth-justice-and-the-italian-way\/","title":{"rendered":"Truth, Justice and the Italian way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not since their pact with Germany in World War II has Italy faced such <a href='http:\/\/www.zoomata.com\/modules.php?name=News&#038;file=article&#038;sid=1126'>dark times.<\/a>  Unlike the Nazis, the current standoff may end with even greater casualties. And it&#8217;s all for pizza. Oh, and lots of money.<\/p>\n<p>Euro driven inflation has pushed the street price of pizza to an all time high. Costly enough that many natives have forsaken dining out and a cultural delight.<\/p>\n<p>To quote Winston Churchill, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153this is an indignity of which I will not put.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Pizza is a national treasure in most any country. Because the doughy, tomato sauce, cheese-y goodness is the only dish the Atkins plan offers no meaningful substitutes, I miss the dish with passion. Sorry, Doctor Bob. Eating the toppings off is a poor workaround.<\/p>\n<p>But let us presume a lack of controlled carb crust does not bother the average Italian. That said, the decline of pizza an insidious problem. A world with expensive pizza is like a world where one needs a credit card to eat at McDonald&#8217;s. Wait a second, McDonald&#8217;s accepts credit cards.<\/p>\n<p>Italy, you stand alone in this crisis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not since their pact with Germany in World War II has Italy faced such dark times. Unlike the Nazis, the current standoff may end with even greater casualties. And it&#8217;s all for pizza. Oh, and lots of money. Euro driven inflation has pushed the street price of pizza to an all time high. Costly enough [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10525","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=10525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10525\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}