{"id":9257,"date":"2014-09-25T01:06:00","date_gmt":"2014-09-25T01:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thatgrrl.ca\/?p=9257"},"modified":"2024-08-26T16:13:33","modified_gmt":"2024-08-26T20:13:33","slug":"what-makes-america-the-greatest-country-in-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/2014\/what-makes-america-the-greatest-country-in-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"What Makes America the Greatest Country in the World?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thatgrrl.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/theusaking.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9259\" src=\"http:\/\/thatgrrl.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/theusaking.png\" alt=\"theusaking\" width=\"272\" height=\"433\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/old-empresario.hubpages.com\/hub\/QA-What-Make-sic-America-the-Greatest-Country-in-the-World\">Q&amp;A: &#8220;What Makes America the Greatest Country in the World?&#8221;<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>America is not a country. It\u2019s a landmass made up of two continents: North America and South America. Here, let me describe them&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(Link to the full post is above).<\/p>\n<p>This is my comment:<\/p>\n<p>Thank you for your post! We talk about the same idea, how America and American could mean anyone from North or South America. Why don&#8217;t people in the US have their own name for their people? Sometimes we call them USers or USians, but they really should have a better name. I don&#8217;t know of any other country which does not have a word or phrase for it&#8217;s citizens. It&#8217;s kind of weird really.<\/p>\n<p>If we talk to people from the US about this they get all huffy about it. &#8220;Americans are Americans!&#8221;. But, in fact, Americans could be Mexican or Canadian or Chilean, etc. USians are a people without a name of their own.<\/p>\n<p>Even &#8220;United States&#8221; or &#8220;United States of America&#8221; is non-descriptive. \u00a0There are other countries with the same name, more or less.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I thought it was just a few of us up here in Canada who thought about this at all. Nice to see someone else has noticed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/2014\/what-makes-america-the-greatest-country-in-the-world\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to What Makes America the Greatest Country in the World?\"><p>Q&amp;A: &#8220;What Makes America the Greatest Country in the World?&#8221;. America is not a country. It\u2019s a landmass made up of two continents: North America and South America. Here, let me describe them&#8230; (Link to the full post is above). This is my comment: Thank you for your post! We talk about the same idea, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[867],"tags":[16,540,54],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9257"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9257"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75950,"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9257\/revisions\/75950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}