{"id":744,"date":"2008-02-28T22:04:27","date_gmt":"2008-02-29T04:04:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=744"},"modified":"2008-02-28T22:04:27","modified_gmt":"2008-02-29T04:04:27","slug":"my-motto-right-or-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=744","title":{"rendered":"My Motto, Right or Wrong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Freakonomics just had a contest to come up with the <a href=\"http:\/\/freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com\/2008\/02\/28\/and-the-new-six-word-motto-for-the-us-is\/\" title=\"best six-word motto\">best six-word motto<\/a> for the United States.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There was a clear winner:<\/p>\n<p>Our Worst Critics Prefer to Stay (194 votes)<\/p>\n<p>Here are the runners-up:<\/p>\n<p>Caution! Experiment in Progress Since 1776 (134)<\/p>\n<p>The Most Gentle Empire So Far (64) votes<\/p>\n<p>You Should See the Other Guy (38)<\/p>\n<p>Just Like Canada, With Better Bacon (18)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I still think P.J. O&#8217;Rourke&#8217;s suggestion: &#8220;America &#8230; It Doesn&#8217;t Suck!&#8221; is better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Freakonomics just had a contest to come up with the best six-word motto for the United States. There was a clear winner: Our Worst Critics Prefer to Stay (194 votes) Here are the runners-up: Caution! Experiment in Progress Since 1776 (134) The Most Gentle Empire So Far (64) votes You Should See the Other Guy &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=744\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">My Motto, Right or Wrong<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BzKF-c0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}