{"id":14243,"date":"2009-08-03T01:02:06","date_gmt":"2009-08-03T01:02:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/the_bbcs_justin_webb_checking_out_of_hotel_america\/"},"modified":"2009-08-03T01:02:06","modified_gmt":"2009-08-03T01:02:06","slug":"the_bbcs_justin_webb_checking_out_of_hotel_america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=14243","title":{"rendered":"The BBC&#39;s Justin Webb: Checking out of &#39;Hotel America&#39;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And yet for all the ugliness, the deadening tawdriness of much of the American landscape and the tinny feebleness of many of its politicians &#8211; for all that nastiness and shallowness and flakiness &#8211; there is no question in my mind that to live here has been the greatest privilege of my life.<\/p>\n<p>The immensity of America, the energy and the zest for life remind me sometimes of India. And as with India, where I spent some time for the BBC many moons ago, America shines a light on the entire human condition.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/programmes\/from_our_own_correspondent\/8176448.stm\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And yet for all the ugliness, the deadening tawdriness of much of the American landscape and the tinny feebleness of many of its politicians &#8211; for all that nastiness and shallowness and flakiness &#8211; there is no question in my<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=14243\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,50,209,199],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-england-uk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14243\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}