{"id":5856,"date":"2010-07-01T05:00:21","date_gmt":"2010-07-01T09:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geneveith.com\/?p=5856"},"modified":"2010-07-01T05:00:21","modified_gmt":"2010-07-01T09:00:21","slug":"we-are-now-accepting-foreign-aid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/geneveith\/2010\/07\/we-are-now-accepting-foreign-aid\/","title":{"rendered":"We are now accepting foreign aid"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>Now we know how Third World countries feel.\u00a0 We should be grateful, though isn\u2019t it kind of humiliating, a sign of our decline in the world?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/news\/US-accepts-international-apf-4104246595.html?x=0&amp;.v=2\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">US accepts international assistance for Gulf spill \u2013 Yahoo! 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