Spritz<\/em> <\/a>of the night.<\/p>\nI was surprised to find that this Italian Daily ran the following post with such a title: “Venetian Independence No Joke” – the article doesn’t really back that claim:<\/p>\n
http:\/\/the-view-from-rome.blogautore.repubblica.it\/2014\/04\/06\/venetian-independence-no-joke\/<\/p>\n
This is the problem when wealth, stupidity and power conspire. There’s a lot of stupid people who don’t know what’s good for them. You can’t just quit on your nation because you’re richer — you’re richer because of your nation. I feel that this is a really obvious truism that “the rich” have forgotten in the globally increasingly polarized political-economic environment that separates the ‘haves’ from the ‘have-nots.’<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A good while back, in March, an informal online plebiscite was held asking residents of Venetia, the Italian region in which Venice is situated and the core of what was once the Venetian Republic , whether or not they wanted to become independent from Italy. A fairly misinformed article in the Atlantic blew this even […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":601,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/j469.ascjclass.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/j469.ascjclass.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/j469.ascjclass.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/j469.ascjclass.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/601"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/j469.ascjclass.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/j469.ascjclass.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/j469.ascjclass.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/j469.ascjclass.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/j469.ascjclass.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}