{"id":1635,"date":"2018-05-23T14:02:09","date_gmt":"2018-05-23T12:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/?p=1635"},"modified":"2018-05-23T16:06:55","modified_gmt":"2018-05-23T14:06:55","slug":"uniqueness-and-exceptionalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wehle.ee\/wp\/?p=1635","title":{"rendered":"Uniqueness and Exceptionalism"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>This [US] is a unique, exceptional country. Russia is unique, but not exceptional.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 90px;\">\u2014Mike Pompeo, Senate confirmation hearing<\/p>\n<p>A few minutes ago I was in the Markgr\u00e4fliches Opernhaus in Bayreuth, one of the last all-wood 18th Century opera houses in Europe. The ornate decor, the feel of a place where operas were performed decades before the French Revolution was sublime.<\/p>\n<p>At Wahnfried, a few blocks away from where I sit drinking coffee, there was a bust of Nietzsche, and of course in texts there were several mentions of him and his relationship to Wagner. I enjoy reading and thinking about Nietzsche so much more than I do thinking about 21st Century Americans. I just can&#8217;t sustain the incredulity, or outrage.<\/p>\n<p>Money in the Parkschein Automat and then off to the Neues Schloss.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This [US] is a unique, exceptional country. Russia is unique, but not exceptional. \u2014Mike Pompeo, Senate confirmation hearing A few minutes ago I was in the Markgr\u00e4fliches Opernhaus in Bayreuth, one of the last all-wood 18th Century opera houses in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wehle.ee\/wp\/?p=1635\">Weiterlesen <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":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1635\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}