{"id":4757,"date":"2009-12-19T11:57:19","date_gmt":"2009-12-19T15:57:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/?p=4757"},"modified":"2012-12-26T21:31:42","modified_gmt":"2012-12-27T02:31:42","slug":"thomas-friedman-freedom-thinker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/link-of-the-day\/12\/19\/thomas-friedman-freedom-thinker\/","title":{"rendered":"Thomas Friedman, Freedom Thinker"},"content":{"rendered":"

From the Eggplant Post comes some quality Thomas Friedman mockery<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\u201cImagine a world where everyone is a sea lion, and then imagine that world if the only way sea lions can get around is on a bicycle. You see where we are headed? Sea lions don\u2019t have feet, so we cant peddle the bicycles. If we don\u2019t solve this smokiness problem, we are all in for a tough bike ride.\u201d Friedman confirmed his observations of the world during a late dinner on the 2nd floor of the Hilton: \u201cWhy does everyone here look Chinese?\u201d he asked himself. \u201cI thought I was in Dubai.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Read the whole damn thing. If you are anything like me, it will make your angry heart flutter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From the Eggplant Post comes some quality Thomas Friedman mockery: \u201cImagine a world where everyone is a sea lion, and then imagine that world if the only way sea lions can get around is on a bicycle. You see where we are headed? Sea lions don\u2019t have feet, so we cant peddle the bicycles. If […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[259],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\nThomas Friedman, Freedom Thinker - Prose Before Hos<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"From the Eggplant Post comes some quality Thomas Friedman mockery: \u201cImagine a world where everyone is a sea lion, and then imagine that world if the only\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/link-of-the-day\/12\/19\/thomas-friedman-freedom-thinker\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Thomas Friedman, Freedom Thinker - Prose Before Hos\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"From the Eggplant Post comes some quality Thomas Friedman mockery: \u201cImagine a world where everyone is a sea lion, and then imagine that world if the only\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/link-of-the-day\/12\/19\/thomas-friedman-freedom-thinker\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Prose Before Hos\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2009-12-19T15:57:19+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2012-12-27T02:31:42+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Link of the Day\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@pbhnetwork\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@pbhnetwork\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Link of the Day\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/link-of-the-day\/12\/19\/thomas-friedman-freedom-thinker\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/link-of-the-day\/12\/19\/thomas-friedman-freedom-thinker\/\",\"name\":\"Thomas Friedman, Freedom Thinker - Prose Before Hos\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2009-12-19T15:57:19+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2012-12-27T02:31:42+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/#\/schema\/person\/5ee5997185db222361a002cd9453c809\"},\"description\":\"From the Eggplant Post comes some quality Thomas Friedman mockery: \u201cImagine a world where everyone is a sea lion, and then imagine that world if the only\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/link-of-the-day\/12\/19\/thomas-friedman-freedom-thinker\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/link-of-the-day\/12\/19\/thomas-friedman-freedom-thinker\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/link-of-the-day\/12\/19\/thomas-friedman-freedom-thinker\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Thomas Friedman, Freedom Thinker\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/\",\"name\":\"Prose Before Hos\",\"description\":\"The Far Side Of Politics\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/#\/schema\/person\/5ee5997185db222361a002cd9453c809\",\"name\":\"Link of the Day\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/author\/link-of-the-day\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Thomas Friedman, Freedom Thinker - Prose Before Hos","description":"From the Eggplant Post comes some quality Thomas Friedman mockery: \u201cImagine a world where everyone is a sea lion, and then imagine that world if the only","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/link-of-the-day\/12\/19\/thomas-friedman-freedom-thinker\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Thomas Friedman, Freedom Thinker - Prose Before Hos","og_description":"From the Eggplant Post comes some quality Thomas Friedman mockery: \u201cImagine a world where everyone is a sea lion, and then imagine that world if the only","og_url":"https:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/link-of-the-day\/12\/19\/thomas-friedman-freedom-thinker\/","og_site_name":"Prose Before Hos","article_published_time":"2009-12-19T15:57:19+00:00","article_modified_time":"2012-12-27T02:31:42+00:00","author":"Link of the Day","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@pbhnetwork","twitter_site":"@pbhnetwork","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Link of the Day","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/link-of-the-day\/12\/19\/thomas-friedman-freedom-thinker\/","url":"https:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/link-of-the-day\/12\/19\/thomas-friedman-freedom-thinker\/","name":"Thomas Friedman, Freedom Thinker - Prose Before Hos","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/#website"},"datePublished":"2009-12-19T15:57:19+00:00","dateModified":"2012-12-27T02:31:42+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/#\/schema\/person\/5ee5997185db222361a002cd9453c809"},"description":"From the Eggplant Post comes some quality Thomas Friedman mockery: \u201cImagine a world where everyone is a sea lion, and then imagine that world if the only","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/link-of-the-day\/12\/19\/thomas-friedman-freedom-thinker\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/link-of-the-day\/12\/19\/thomas-friedman-freedom-thinker\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/link-of-the-day\/12\/19\/thomas-friedman-freedom-thinker\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Thomas Friedman, Freedom Thinker"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/","name":"Prose Before Hos","description":"The Far Side Of Politics","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/#\/schema\/person\/5ee5997185db222361a002cd9453c809","name":"Link of the Day","url":"https:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/author\/link-of-the-day\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4757"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4757"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136308,"href":"https:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4757\/revisions\/136308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}