{"id":1116,"date":"2013-12-17T23:27:58","date_gmt":"2013-12-18T04:27:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/?p=1116"},"modified":"2013-12-17T23:27:58","modified_gmt":"2013-12-18T04:27:58","slug":"peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/2013\/12\/17\/peace","title":{"rendered":"Let There Be Peace on Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So we can travel a lot more easily. So we can learn about each other and enjoy what we all have to offer more easily.<\/p>\n<p>Without corrupt governments and politics sticking their asses into everything.<\/p>\n<p>There are so many beautiful places to see and cultures to be exposed to and foods to taste, yet so many are in unstable environments, rife with crime and misery and poverty, brought on by corrupt infrastructure and political turmoil.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d like our relations with Russia to completely improve, and then we&#8217;ll build a bridge across the Bering Strait, so then we can drive to Asia. Take roadtrips to liberated China and India. Korean Peninsula could finally get along and then build a bridge to Hokkaido so we can drive to Japan as well. Then with the Middle East peaceful we can drive over there for some quality falafel. The kind they share with their Israeli neighbor friends because they have no beef with each other anymore. And then into Africa, free of corrupt governments and practices and abject poverty, for all the beauty it has to offer underneath all that.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe international borders would just dissolve entirely. No more &#8220;illegal immigration&#8221; concerns because they would be welcome anywhere and even where they&#8217;d be coming from would be pleasant and peaceful and provide them with all they need.<\/p>\n<p>No wars. No starvation. No atrocities.<\/p>\n<p>Just a lot of cooperation and harmony and acceptance of difference.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;d be nice.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/stringlights.gif\" title=\"Merry Christmas!\"\/><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So we can travel a lot more easily. So we can learn about each other and enjoy what we all have to offer more easily. Without corrupt governments and politics sticking their asses into everything. There are so many beautiful places to see and cultures to be exposed to and foods to taste, yet so &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/2013\/12\/17\/peace\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Let There Be Peace on Earth&#8221;<\/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":[21,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christmas-time","category-think-about-it"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1116"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1117,"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1116\/revisions\/1117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}