{"id":128,"date":"2010-04-06T21:55:36","date_gmt":"2010-04-07T01:55:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/000af36.netsolhost.com\/wordpress1\/2010\/04\/06\/world-leaders-follow-mcdonnells-lead\/"},"modified":"2010-04-06T21:55:36","modified_gmt":"2010-04-07T01:55:36","slug":"world-leaders-follow-mcdonnells-lead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/2010\/04\/06\/world-leaders-follow-mcdonnells-lead\/","title":{"rendered":"World Leaders Follow McDonnell&rsquo;s Lead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To boost tourism in their own countries, leaders across the world are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/ap\/article\/ALeqM5jqQbfeRbvfayWb3HpO8St1anpMowD9ETQJAO0\">adapting Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell\u2019s tourism strategy<\/a>.&#0160; <\/p>\n<p>Angela Merkel declared April Holocaust Month and is encouraging tourists to stop by Dachau to learn about the courageous German guards.&#0160; <\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s also Turkey Month, Armenian Style.&#0160; You can tour across the old Ottoman Empire and see what Young Turks can do when they really put their minds to it.<\/p>\n<p>And for you pot heads, visit the lush fields in Cambodia where it\u2019s Pol Pot Month.&#0160; <\/p>\n<p>As for McDonnell, who is sensitive to the furor over his designating April Confederacy Month in the Old Dominion, he wants to add a celebration of how far African-Americans have come since the Civil War.&#0160; So he\u2019s planning to cap the month with a minstrel show\u2014with all white performers in black face, of course.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE:&#0160; Peter Miller at The Huffington Post takes the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/peter-g-miller\/va-governor-declares-may_b_529751.html\">Nazi analogy a bit further<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To boost tourism in their own countries, leaders across the world are adapting Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell\u2019s tourism strategy.&#0160; Angela Merkel declared April Holocaust Month and is encouraging tourists to stop by Dachau to learn about the courageous German guards.&#0160; It\u2019s also Turkey Month, Armenian Style.&#0160; You can tour across the old Ottoman Empire and&hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/2010\/04\/06\/world-leaders-follow-mcdonnells-lead\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[37],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}