{"id":8622,"date":"2013-11-13T12:08:46","date_gmt":"2013-11-13T20:08:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/?p=8622"},"modified":"2013-11-13T12:08:46","modified_gmt":"2013-11-13T20:08:46","slug":"aprilmay-2013-sowing-clover-uruguays-president-a-role-model-for-americaby-tonya-stiles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/2013\/11\/13\/aprilmay-2013-sowing-clover-uruguays-president-a-role-model-for-americaby-tonya-stiles\/","title":{"rendered":"(April\/May 2013) Sowing Clover: Uruguay\u2019s President: A Role Model for America?\u2026by Tonya Stiles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Excerpt:\u00a0<\/strong> The United States really isn\u2019t doing well these days. You may not know it, listening to American news. You\u2019ll still hear from the mouthpieces of every public personality that America remains the best country on earth. That, despite our current setbacks, we are still the \u201cshining beacon\u201d of freedom and whatnot. Of course, they offer nothing to back up this claim. No studies, or rankings, to show that living in America makes a person happier, healthier or more fulfilled than he or she would be living anywhere else. To our minds, it\u2019s self-evident. All Americans are created better. And, of course, a corollary to the belief that we\u2019re the best at everything is the belief that we have nothing to learn from anyone else. And we\u2019ll continue believing it, so long as we still excel in the two arts of seduction: finance, which convinces us that money is born out of thin air and then disappears it before our eyes, and pop culture, which intoxicates us with our own vision\u2014only prettier, happier and with greater worldly belongings.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Click the image below to read Tonya&#8217;s story:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/2013\/04\/01\/sowing-clover-uruguays-president-a-role-model-for-america-by-tonya-stiles\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-8623\" alt=\"Pepemujica\" src=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Pepemujica-200x300.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Pepemujica-200x300.jpg 200w, http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Pepemujica-682x1024.jpg 682w, http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Pepemujica.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/2013\/04\/01\/sowing-clover-uruguays-president-a-role-model-for-america-by-tonya-stiles\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/2013\/04\/01\/sowing-clover-uruguays-president-a-role-model-for-america-by-tonya-stiles\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excerpt:\u00a0 The United States really isn\u2019t doing well these days. You may not know it, listening to American news. You\u2019ll still hear from the mouthpieces of every public personality that America remains the best country on earth. That, despite our current setbacks, we are still the \u201cshining beacon\u201d of freedom and whatnot. Of course, they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anything"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8622"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10343,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8622\/revisions\/10343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}