{"id":8489,"date":"2021-04-11T12:49:40","date_gmt":"2021-04-11T16:49:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/?p=8489"},"modified":"2021-04-15T06:46:30","modified_gmt":"2021-04-15T10:46:30","slug":"episode-309-the-united-states-is-a-complicated-country-the-amish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/?p=8489","title":{"rendered":"EPISODE 309 THE UNITED STATES IS A COMPLICATED COUNTRY: THE AMISH"},"content":{"rendered":"
EPISODE  309   THE UNITE STATES IS  A  COMPLICATED  COUNTRY:  THE AMISH<\/p>\n

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alan skeoch<\/div>\n
April 2021<\/div>\n
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TODAY,  April 2021, we have a tendency to see Americans as either Democrats  or Republicans\u2026as either supporters of Joe Biden or<\/div>\n
Donald Trump.  As a land where some people believe the carrying of  weapons is a constitutional right while others see the packing<\/div>\n
of a hand gun as symptom of madness. A land where<\/div>\n
hate trumps love.<\/div>\n
The United States is just not that simple.  Three decades ago our family visited rural friends  in central Ohio where the population of<\/div>\n
Amish people is larger than the population of non-Amish people.   These visits underscored just how complicated  American  life can be.<\/div>\n

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The Amish eschew modern technology.  They try to live separate from the larger society.  Fascinating.  Perhaps a relief from the climate<\/div>\n
of hatred that seems to prevail today.   I am not sure where they stand on he gun issue\u2026nor the black\/white issue\u2026nor the immigration issue\u2026nor<\/div>\n
the immigration issue.  They are just different\u2026withdrawn perhaps but that is hard to assume.<\/div>\n

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They live in a simplified world  of heir own.  Perhaps we need  this as a distraction from the angry society we seem to see on television every day.<\/div>\n

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EPISODE  309   THE UNITE STATES IS  A  COMPLICATED  COUNTRY:  THE AMISH alan skeoch April 2021 TODAY,  April 2021, we have a tendency to see Americans as either Democrats  or Republicans\u2026as either supporters of Joe Biden or Donald Trump.  As a land where some people believe the carrying of  weapons is a constitutional right while […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8489\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}