{"id":1551,"date":"2006-09-29T20:42:26","date_gmt":"2006-09-30T01:42:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/?p=1551"},"modified":"2016-08-15T20:43:41","modified_gmt":"2016-08-16T01:43:41","slug":"the-south","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/?p=1551","title":{"rendered":"The south&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is strange that, like a lot of Quebecers, I saw Florida as a place for blue haired people and the epitome of artificiality (if such a word exists)&#8230;yet the more time I spend here the more I appreciate the natural wonders, the southern hospitality, the attractions and the weather &#8230; of course&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/floridasunrise.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1552\" src=\"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/floridasunrise.jpg\" alt=\"floridasunrise\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/floridasunrise.jpg 500w, https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/floridasunrise-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I look forward to visiting other southern States&#8230;the Carolinas perhaps&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I am still troubled by the racial tensions in the US and even more so by my own changes of attitude towards them&#8230;I used to think in a simplistic manner that as long as the whites welcomed the blacks and offerred them equal opportunities everything would be peachy&#8230;this is obviously not enough&#8230;.and it is frightening to see that the gap between the two groups is widening&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>One thing I am unbending about though, is the attitude towards firearms&#8230;nothing anyone can say or do will ever make me change my mind. Guns kill people&#8230;that is their only use&#8230;so it stands to reason that if everyone has access to them&#8230;this is what some people will use them for&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is strange that, like a lot of Quebecers, I saw Florida as a place for blue haired people and the epitome of artificiality (if such a word exists)&#8230;yet the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1551"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1553,"href":"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1551\/revisions\/1553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}