{"id":92,"date":"2007-10-01T11:25:27","date_gmt":"2007-10-01T15:25:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/2007\/10\/01\/we-have-got-to-get-our-groove-back\/"},"modified":"2007-10-01T11:25:27","modified_gmt":"2007-10-01T15:25:27","slug":"we-have-got-to-get-our-groove-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/2007\/10\/01\/we-have-got-to-get-our-groove-back\/","title":{"rendered":"We have got to get our groove back."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/09\/30\/opinion\/30friedman.html?em&amp;ex=1191297600&amp;en=9b57e4776ffd004f&amp;ei=5087\">NYTimes:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Roger Dow, president of the Travel Industry Association, told me that the United States has lost millions of overseas visitors since 9\/11 \u2014 even though the dollar is weak and America is on sale. \u201c<em>Only<\/em> the U.S. is losing traveler volume among major countries, which is unheard of in today\u2019s world,\u201d Mr. Dow said. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Total business arrivals to the United States fell by 10 percent over the 2004-5 period alone, while the number of business visitors to Europe grew by 8 percent in that time. The travel industry\u2019s recent Discover America Partnership study concluded that <em>\u201cthe U.S. entry process has created a climate of fear and frustration that is turning away foreign business and leisure travelers and hurting America\u2019s image abroad.\u201d<\/em> Those who don\u2019t visit us, don\u2019t know us &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"italic\">We can\u2019t afford to keep being this stupid!<\/span> We have got to get our groove back. We need a president who will unite us around a common purpose, not a common enemy. Al Qaeda is about 9\/11. We are about 9\/12, we are about the Fourth of July \u2014 which is why I hope that anyone who runs on the 9\/11 platform gets trounced.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/timony\/1467941407\/\" title=\"Beantown Paddle Boat\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1396\/1467941407_e77c5d7953.jpg\" alt=\"Beantown Paddle Boat\" height=\"375\" width=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the NYTimes: Roger Dow, president of the Travel Industry Association, told me that the United States has lost millions of overseas visitors since 9\/11 \u2014 even though the dollar is weak and America is on sale. \u201cOnly the U.S. is losing traveler volume among major countries, which is unheard of in today\u2019s world,\u201d Mr. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/2007\/10\/01\/we-have-got-to-get-our-groove-back\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">We have got to get our groove back.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-society"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}