{"id":530091,"date":"2010-04-16T17:32:46","date_gmt":"2010-04-16T21:32:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.caranddriver.com\/?p=18106"},"modified":"2010-04-16T17:32:46","modified_gmt":"2010-04-16T21:32:46","slug":"aaron-robinson-from-orbit-you-can%e2%80%99t-see-america-sliding-backward-into-mediocrity-%e2%80%93-column","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/530091","title":{"rendered":"Aaron Robinson: From Orbit, You Can\u2019t see America Sliding Backward into Mediocrity \u2013 Column"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.caranddriver.com\/features\/10q1\/aaron_robinson_from_orbit_you_can_t_see_america_sliding_backward_into_mediocrity-column\/gallery\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-18827\" title=\"Aaron-Robinson-Column-May-2010-Placement\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.caranddriver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Aaron-Robinson-Column-May-2010-Placement-440x268.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"440\" height=\"268\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>We the People need occasional collective amazement as much as we need an affordable doctor.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Mrs. Robinson and I are out 700 bucks for airfare to Orlando, several hundred dollars in hotel and Denny\u2019s dining bills, and $88 for little blue tickets that allow us to sit on damp grass at 4:42 in the morning with thousands of shivering strangers, all of us staring dejectedly at a blank, black sky.<\/p>\n<p>Keep Reading: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.caranddriver.com\/features\/10q1\/aaron_robinson_from_orbit_you_can_t_see_america_sliding_backward_into_mediocrity-column\" >Aaron Robinson: From Orbit, You Can\u2019t see America Sliding Backward into Mediocrity<\/a><\/p>\n<p>No related posts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We the People need occasional collective amazement as much as we need an affordable doctor. Mrs. Robinson and I are out 700 bucks for airfare to Orlando, several hundred dollars in hotel and Denny\u2019s dining bills, and $88 for little blue tickets that allow us to sit on damp grass at 4:42 in the morning [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6416,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-530091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6416"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=530091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530091\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=530091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=530091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=530091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}