{"id":120,"date":"2007-05-07T01:37:18","date_gmt":"2007-05-06T22:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/khrys.is-a-geek.org\/wordpress\/?p=120"},"modified":"2007-05-20T20:32:36","modified_gmt":"2007-05-20T17:32:36","slug":"french-and-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/khrys.is-a-geek.org\/wordpress\/?p=120","title":{"rendered":"French and politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remark from my girlfriend while seeing some pictures of the Place de la Concorde in Paris, looking like an evening of victory in a soccer world cup : &#8220;It&#8217;s funny how your people are celebrating the new president &#8230; I mean, here, nobody goes in the streets after the presidential elections &#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Good remark &#8230; I wonder in how many countries people do that. Probably not many. Some possible reasons ?<br \/>\nPerhaps because we like being in the streets for no reasons :) Perhaps because in France, people like politics more than in other countries ? Perhaps because, every time, they believe in the new one as in a new messiah, even though tomorrow they will admit that nothing will change &#8230; Perhaps because president has more power here than in most democratic countries, at least in Europe ?<\/p>\n<p>I prefer to think that people manifest their luck of being in a country where you can elect your leader, since not all the countries in the world can do it :)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remark from my girlfriend while seeing some pictures of the Place de la Concorde in Paris, looking like an evening of victory in a soccer world cup : &#8220;It&#8217;s funny how your people are celebrating the new president &#8230; I mean, here, nobody goes in the streets after the presidential elections &#8230;&#8221; Good remark &#8230; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[7,11],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/poMUP-1W","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/khrys.is-a-geek.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/khrys.is-a-geek.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/khrys.is-a-geek.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/khrys.is-a-geek.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/khrys.is-a-geek.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/khrys.is-a-geek.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/khrys.is-a-geek.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/khrys.is-a-geek.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/khrys.is-a-geek.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}