{"id":201,"date":"2014-12-13T20:30:00","date_gmt":"2014-12-13T20:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/diane.eklund.abolins.net\/blog\/index.php\/2014\/12\/13\/quotes\/"},"modified":"2019-12-31T08:16:32","modified_gmt":"2019-12-30T21:16:32","slug":"quotes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diane.eklund.abolins.net\/blog\/quotes\/","title":{"rendered":"Quotes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\">This time, I decided on something a bit different: two thought-provoking quotes, one in English and one in Swedish (for my Swedish blog followers).<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-jQVvDk6Jge0\/VItkJl8TMeI\/AAAAAAAAByw\/uVviQUlJiss\/s1600\/imperial.jpeg\" style=\"clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-jQVvDk6Jge0\/VItkJl8TMeI\/AAAAAAAAByw\/uVviQUlJiss\/s1600\/imperial.jpeg\" height=\"200\" width=\"129\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><u><i>Imperial Life in the Emerald City <\/i><span style=\"font-style: normal;\">by <a href=\"http:\/\/rajivc.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rajiv Chandrasekaran&nbsp;<\/a>&nbsp;<\/span><\/u><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\">\u2018<span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Agresto (<i>an American sent to Iraq to do something about the universities<\/i>) believed that Iraqis hadn\u2019t focused on ethnic and religious divisions before the war, and it was the CPA\u2019s (<i>Coalition Provisional Authority<\/i>) quota system that had encouraged them to identify themselves by race and sect. . .\u2019 P.284<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\"><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><u><i>F\u00f6rbl\u00e4ndningen <\/i><span style=\"font-style: normal;\">av <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/sv.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Elias_Canetti\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Elias Canetti<\/a> <\/u><\/span><\/span><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-UauWbhGsPww\/VItkJi15-1I\/AAAAAAAABy0\/uYeK9Ae3HQM\/s1600\/canetti.jpeg\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-UauWbhGsPww\/VItkJi15-1I\/AAAAAAAABy0\/uYeK9Ae3HQM\/s1600\/canetti.jpeg\" height=\"200\" width=\"200\" \/><\/a>\u2018<span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">De handlar och vet inte vad de g\u00f6r; de har sina vanor och vet inte varf\u00f6r; de vandrar hela sitt liv och k\u00e4nner \u00e4nd\u00e5 inte sin v\u00e4g: s\u00e5dana \u00e4r de, massm\u00e4nniskorna.<span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\">\u2019<\/span> P.82<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This time, I decided on something a bit different: two thought-provoking quotes, one in English and one in Swedish (for my Swedish blog followers). Imperial Life in the Emerald City by Rajiv Chandrasekaran&nbsp;&nbsp; \u2018Agresto (an American sent to Iraq to do something about the universities) believed that Iraqis hadn\u2019t focused on ethnic and religious divisions &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"readmore-btn\" href=\"https:\/\/diane.eklund.abolins.net\/blog\/quotes\/\">+<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diane.eklund.abolins.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diane.eklund.abolins.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diane.eklund.abolins.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diane.eklund.abolins.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diane.eklund.abolins.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diane.eklund.abolins.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diane.eklund.abolins.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diane.eklund.abolins.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diane.eklund.abolins.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}