{"id":17804,"date":"2010-03-23T17:39:26","date_gmt":"2010-03-24T01:39:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=17804"},"modified":"2010-03-23T17:43:06","modified_gmt":"2010-03-24T01:43:06","slug":"dennis-prager-feeling-more-european","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=17804","title":{"rendered":"Dennis Prager Feeling More European"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On his radio show Monday, Dennis said: &#8220;On the day after the darkest day in my lifetime. Obviously 9\/11 was so dark in pure human tragedy, but it didn&#8217;t weaken America. In terms of weakening America, yesterday was by far the darkest day as we retreat from the American ideal of a smaller government and a freer citizen.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I actually feel a little different today. When it passed, I started feeling a little more European&#8230; I felt it. I&#8217;ve lived in Europe. I just came back again from Europe a couple of weeks ago. There&#8217;s a deadening element because as the state gets bigger in your life, you get less excited about life. What is there to get excited about in Europe? You can&#8217;t really make more money. The government tells you when you open your shop and when you close it. You can&#8217;t educate your own children if you want [home schooling is banned in Germany for instance]. The state does everything for you&#8230; You exist to make love. They are apparently quite good at that in Europe. There&#8217;s more focus on cuisine and on sex, the only areas where government hasn&#8217;t intruded. It inevitably makes the human more of a hedonist. There&#8217;s nothing noble to do in Europe. The government has taken over noble works.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On his radio show Monday, Dennis said: &#8220;On the day after the darkest day in my lifetime. Obviously 9\/11 was so dark in pure human tragedy, but it didn&#8217;t weaken America. In terms of weakening America, yesterday was by far &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=17804\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[21720,21719,29761,21721,21718,1453],"class_list":["post-17804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dennis-prager","tag-american-ideal","tag-darkest-day","tag-dennis-prager","tag-hedonist","tag-human-tragedy","tag-radio-show"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17804\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}