{"id":286,"date":"2004-06-15T07:31:39","date_gmt":"2004-06-15T15:31:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/?p=286"},"modified":"2006-01-19T17:05:04","modified_gmt":"2006-01-20T01:05:04","slug":"rakkity-returns-briefly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/2004\/06\/15\/rakkity-returns-briefly\/","title":{"rendered":"Rakkity Returns (briefly)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, it was a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.astro.umd.edu\/~ed\/UtahGallery\/FrameSet.htm\">stunning place! <\/a>  And for a week we wandered around the high desert, oblivious to the political expostulations we&#8217;re normally immersed in.<\/p>\n<p>But near the end of our trip, we saw the headlines about Reagan&#8217;s death in some Utah newspapers.  The Utahans are Reagan worshippers, and the editorials of their papers expounded on the &#8220;earth-shaking&#8221; things he did.  But if you ask anyone in Esteli what they thought and think of Reagan, you will get a   <a href=\"http:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/static\/descoto.shtml\"> different answer: <\/a><\/p>\n<p>After returning here, I was stunned at the differences of opinion in the DC area. While thousands mourned their hero in the parade on the Mall, many others shook their heads and wondered whether America has changed at all since the 80&#8217;s (or the 50&#8217;s).  William Raspberry, writing in the Post today, pointed out how Reagan had given tax exemptions to the racist Bob Jones university. This afternoon, a caller from So. Africa to NPR&#8217;s Kojo Nambe show recalled Reagan&#8217;s  inability to reject the fascist government that jailed Mandela.  Others quoted the polls of Reagan&#8217;s last year in office:  his popularity was lower than Clinton&#8217;s immediately after the votes for impeachment.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m heading for the mountains again Thursday.  It&#8217;s time to abandon what serves for civilization.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, it was a stunning place! And for a week we wandered around the high desert, oblivious to the political expostulations we&#8217;re normally immersed in. But near the end of our trip, we saw the headlines about Reagan&#8217;s death in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/2004\/06\/15\/rakkity-returns-briefly\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rakkity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}