{"id":2018,"date":"2009-03-07T22:46:02","date_gmt":"2009-03-07T22:46:02","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2009-03-07T22:48:07","modified_gmt":"2009-03-07T22:48:07","slug":"theres_nothing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=2018","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;There&#8217;s nothing special about Britain&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nYou&#8217;re kidding me&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The Telegraph <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/worldnews\/northamerica\/usa\/barackobama\/4953523\/Barack-Obama-too-tired-to-give-proper-welcome-to-Gordon-Brown.html\" target=\"browser\">has a column up<\/a> about how Obama&#8217;s lukewarm reception was explained by the fact that Obama is simply exhausted.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s put that aside for a moment, because buried in the article is this quote:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>The real views of many in Obama administration were laid bare by a State Department official involved in planning the Brown visit, who reacted with fury when questioned by The Sunday Telegraph about why the event was so low-key.<\/p>\n<p>The official dismissed any notion of the special relationship, saying: &#8220;There&#8217;s nothing special about Britain. You&#8217;re just the same as the other 190 countries in the world. You shouldn&#8217;t expect special treatment.&#8221; <\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m going to go knock my head against the wall for a little while&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK, this is bad&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2018"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2018\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}