{"id":2171,"date":"2005-07-22T13:47:00","date_gmt":"2005-07-22T13:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/2005\/07\/22\/the-difference-between-americans-and-brits\/"},"modified":"2005-07-22T13:47:00","modified_gmt":"2005-07-22T13:47:00","slug":"the-difference-between-americans-and-brits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/2005\/07\/22\/the-difference-between-americans-and-brits\/","title":{"rendered":"The difference between Americans and Brits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brits: We get bombed in the transit system, ok. We&apos;ll take our bikes. We need to plod on cause we can&apos;t let them win.<\/p>\n<p>Americans: <i>In the wake of today&apos;s 4 dud bombings in London, the U.S. House has voted to extend the Patriot Act by a vote of 257-171. This includes 10-year extensions to the two other provisions set to expire on December 31, one allowing roving wiretaps, and another allowing searches of library and medical records.&#8221;<\/i> From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2005\/POLITICS\/07\/21\/congress.patriotact.ap\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">CNN<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.flubu.com\/comics\/sf20030325.gif\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brits: We get bombed in the transit system, ok. We&apos;ll take our bikes. We need to plod on cause we can&apos;t let them win. Americans: In the wake of today&apos;s 4 dud bombings in London, the U.S. House has voted to extend the Patriot Act by a vote of 257-171. This includes 10-year extensions to&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/2005\/07\/22\/the-difference-between-americans-and-brits\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;The difference between Americans and Brits&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[14,49],"class_list":["post-2171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-comics","tag-the-british-way"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3u9vK-z1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2171\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}