{"id":339,"date":"2008-03-10T09:10:39","date_gmt":"2008-03-10T14:10:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=339"},"modified":"2008-03-10T08:15:32","modified_gmt":"2008-03-10T13:15:32","slug":"dont-you-sell-america-to-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=339","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t you sell America to me."},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Excerpts from my Journals<\/h3>\n<p><small>[Dated December 2001.]<\/small><\/p>\n<p><em>Phil Green<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>For Christ&#8217;s sakes, Henry, don&#8217;t you understand?  It&#8217;s people like us, people in the middle that made this country work.  And an&#8230;when people like ourselves get into this&#8230;this kind of thing, it takes it all down.  That&#8217;s what&#8217;s ripping our country apart.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>Harry Stoner<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>You son of a bitch!  Don&#8217;t you sell America to me.  I&#8217;ve got friends over there sitting under the sand with bikinis on their heads&#8230;I used to get goosebumps every time I look at that flag.  Don&#8217;t sell me America!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0070640\/\"><em>Save the Tiger<\/em><\/a>, a 1973 film for which Jack Lemmon won an Oscar playing Harry Stoner, a staid businessman whose personal and professional misconduct over the course of two days is supposed to reflect the societal disorder unleashed by the 1960s.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excerpts from my Journals [Dated December 2001.] Phil Green: For Christ&#8217;s sakes, Henry, don&#8217;t you understand? It&#8217;s people like us, people in the middle that made this country work. And an&#8230;when people like ourselves get into this&#8230;this kind of thing, it takes it all down. That&#8217;s what&#8217;s ripping our country apart. Harry Stoner: You son [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[51,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts-from-my-journals","category-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8qcx-5t","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}