{"id":752,"date":"2006-06-23T09:31:06","date_gmt":"2006-06-23T14:31:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/?p=752"},"modified":"2009-06-11T18:27:31","modified_gmt":"2009-06-11T22:27:31","slug":"why-i-love-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2006\/06\/23\/why-i-love-australia\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I Love Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I ran across a very interesting article today titled &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/articles\/2006\/06\/why_i_love_australia.html\">Why I Love Australia<\/a>.&#8221; I highly recommend reading the whole thing (it&#8217;s short), but here&#8217;s a snippet for those too lazy to click on links:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In the Australian House of Representatives last month, opposition member Julia Gillard interrupted a speech by the minister of health thusly: &#8220;I move that that sniveling grub over there be not further heard.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>For that, the good woman was ordered removed from the House, if only for a day. She might have escaped that little time-out if she had responded to the speaker&#8217;s demand for an apology with something other than &#8220;If I have offended grubs, I withdraw unconditionally.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>God, I love Australia.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I certainly do have respect for a country that has politicians who can call people &#8220;sniveling grub[s]&#8221; with a straight face.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the Australian House of Representatives last month, opposition member Julia Gillard interrupted a speech by the minister of health thusly: &#8220;I move that that sniveling grub over there be not further heard.&#8221; For that, the good woman was ordered removed from the House, if only for a day. She might have escaped that little time-out if she had responded to the speaker\u2019s demand for an apology with something other than &#8220;If I have offended grubs, I withdraw unconditionally.&#8221;<\/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,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pimUj-c8","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3887,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2012\/05\/23\/americans-guide-australia\/","url_meta":{"origin":752,"position":0},"title":"The American&#8217;s Guide to Australia","author":"Keith Survell","date":"May 23, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Everything you ever wanted to know about Australia (but were afraid to ask). 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