{"id":4293,"date":"2012-01-13T21:09:32","date_gmt":"2012-01-14T03:09:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=4293"},"modified":"2012-01-13T21:09:33","modified_gmt":"2012-01-14T03:09:33","slug":"lunch-with-the-ft-zbigniew-brzezinski","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=4293","title":{"rendered":"Lunch with the FT: Zbigniew Brzezinski"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/intl\/cms\/s\/2\/4d03c5f6-3ac1-11e1-a756-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1jIoKssR2\">Edward Luce:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>\u201cAmericans don\u2019t learn about the world, they don\u2019t study world history, other than American history in a very one-sided fashion, and they don\u2019t study geography,\u201d Brzezinski says. \u201cIn that context of widespread ignorance, the ongoing and deliberately fanned fear about the outside world, which is connected with this grandiose war on jihadi terrorism, makes the American public extremely susceptible to extremist appeals.\u201d But surely most Americans are tired of overseas adventures, I say. \u201cThere is more scepticism,\u201d Brzezinski concedes. \u201cBut the susceptibility to demagoguery is still there.\u201d<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Edward Luce: \u201cAmericans don\u2019t learn about the world, they don\u2019t study world history, other than American history in a very one-sided fashion, and they don\u2019t study geography,\u201d Brzezinski says. \u201cIn that context of widespread ignorance, the ongoing and deliberately fanned fear about the outside world, which is connected with this grandiose war on jihadi terrorism, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,5,33,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4293"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4293"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4294,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4293\/revisions\/4294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}