{"id":151,"date":"2007-11-30T23:00:39","date_gmt":"2007-12-01T07:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/?p=151"},"modified":"2007-11-30T23:00:39","modified_gmt":"2007-12-01T07:00:39","slug":"i-want-to-teach-in-the-third-world-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/i-want-to-teach-in-the-third-world-not\/","title":{"rendered":"I want to teach in the Third World (not)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think this <a href=\"http:\/\/news.sky.com\/skynews\/picture_gallery\/picture_gallery\/0,,70141-1294492,.html\">picture<\/a> presents a pretty compelling case for why spreading a little more civilization would be a good idea&#8211;for someone else to try.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/apnews.myway.com\/image\/20071130\/APTOPIX_SUDAN_BRITAIN_TEACHER.sff_XAN104_20071130111238.html?date=20071130&#038;docid=D8T88JT80\">These images<\/a> will be impossible for the Muslim Council of Britain to overcome <a href=\"http:\/\/www.inthenews.co.uk\/news\/autocodes\/countries\/sudan\/angry-protests-over-uk-teacher-$1173367.htm\">no matter what they say<\/a>.   The Sudanese ambassador is whistling in the wind by calling this affair a <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/africa\/7114439.stm\"> tempest in a teacup<\/a>.  Politicized Islam, however ugly, is not too different, of course, from <a href=\"http:\/\/images.google.com\/imgres?imgurl=http:\/\/www.firstfoot.com\/Great%2520Scot\/images\/witchburning.jpg&#038;imgrefurl=http:\/\/www.firstfoot.com\/Great%2520Scot\/janethorne.htm&#038;h=278&#038;w=250&#038;sz=12&#038;hl=en&#038;start=2&#038;sig2=M4YUDE9ml0RJaJsztOXOlA&#038;tbnid=8iaoe-Ewoq0YwM:&#038;tbnh=114&#038;tbnw=103&#038;eid=osdRR5LtN5SoeMnDmNEO&#038;prev=\">politicized Christianity<\/a>, except for a few centuries of civilization.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think this picture presents a pretty compelling case for why spreading a little more civilization would be a good idea&#8211;for someone else to try. These images will be impossible for the Muslim Council of Britain to overcome no matter what they say. The Sudanese ambassador is whistling in the wind by calling this affair [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-invisible-trade-offs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}