{"id":2575,"date":"2009-07-06T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-06T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/2009\/07\/narrative-and-nationalism\/"},"modified":"2009-07-06T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-06T00:00:00","slug":"narrative-and-nationalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2009\/07\/narrative-and-nationalism\/","title":{"rendered":"NARRATIVE AND NATIONALISM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man is taking a walk in Central park in New York. Suddenly he sees a little girl being attacked by a pit bull dog. He runs over and starts fighting with the dog. He succeeds in killing the dog and saving the girl&#8217;s life. <\/p>\n<p>A policeman who was watching the scene walks over and says, &quot;You are a hero, tomorrow you can read it in all the newspapers: Brave New Yorker saves the life of little girl!&quot; <\/p>\n<p>The man says, &quot;But I am not a New Yorker!&quot; &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Oh then it will say in newspapers in the morning: Brave American saves life of little girl!,&quot; the policeman answers. <\/p>\n<p>&quot;But I am not an American!&quot; says the man. <\/p>\n<p>&quot;Oh, what are you then?&quot; <\/p>\n<p>The man says, &quot;I am a Pakistani!&quot; <\/p>\n<p>The next day the newspapers say: &quot;Islamic extremist kills innocent American dog.&quot;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man is taking a walk in Central park in New York. Suddenly he sees a little girl being attacked by a pit bull dog. He runs over and starts fighting with the dog. He succeeds in killing the dog and saving the girl&#8217;s life. A policeman who was watching the scene walks over and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary-archives"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2575\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}