{"id":2260,"date":"2003-03-04T14:14:41","date_gmt":"2003-03-04T21:14:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/archives\/2003\/03\/hotel-surrenders\/"},"modified":"2003-03-04T14:14:41","modified_gmt":"2003-03-04T21:14:41","slug":"hotel-surrenders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2003\/03\/04\/hotel-surrenders\/","title":{"rendered":"Hotel surrenders"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\tCraig Schamp reports that the Hotel Sofitel in Redwood City has taken down its French flag.<\/a> The Mercury News explains why:<\/p>\n

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Many French in the United States say that Americans have misunderstood their country’s position on Iraq, and Americans do not appreciate that two world wars in your back yard can bring a different perspective.<\/p>\n

“The two world wars are still very fresh” for the French, said Sophie Ravel, a Palo Alto real estate agent who has lived in the United States since 1984. “People in America have never seen their family killed in front of their eyes.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Before Sept. 11th, this was true, but now it’s not; it’s interesting, however, that so many French have seen American soldiers killed in front their eyes. <\/p>\n

Back on planet Earth, Emmanuelle’s on strike<\/a> against the Radio France.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Craig Schamp reports that the Hotel Sofitel in Redwood City has taken down its French flag. The Mercury News explains why: Many French in the United States say that Americans have misunderstood their country’s position on Iraq, and Americans do not appreciate that two world wars in your back yard can bring a different perspective. … Continue reading “Hotel surrenders”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-As","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2260\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}