{"id":669,"date":"2004-12-08T09:18:18","date_gmt":"2004-12-08T08:18:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vorspeisenplatte.de\/speisen\/2004\/12\/the-brits-and-us.htm"},"modified":"2004-12-08T09:19:54","modified_gmt":"2004-12-08T08:19:54","slug":"the-brits-and-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vorspeisenplatte.de\/speisen\/2004\/12\/the-brits-and-us.htm","title":{"rendered":"The Brits and Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Endlich mal etwas Vern\u00fcnftiges zum schr\u00e4gen und scheinbar unverbesserlichen Verh\u00e4ltnis, das die Briten zu Deutschland und seinen Bewohnern haben: <a href=\"http:\/\/observer.guardian.co.uk\/comment\/story\/0,6903,1361264,00.html\" target=_new>\u201eStop making fun of the Hun\u201c im Guardian<\/a>, von Catherine Mayer, der Vorsitzenden der Foreign Press Association in London.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNearly 60 years after Germany laid down arms, Brits appear reluctant to leave the trenches\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Aber auch:<br \/>\n&#8220;The latest cheerleader for Deutschland is John Cleese. In Basil Fawlty he created a character that exposed little Englander xenophobia and, in particular, Germanophobia. Yet Basil&#8217;s imprecation &#8216;Don&#8217;t mention the war!&#8217; was almost instantly adopted with hilarity by the tendency it was meant to satirise. Now Cleese is spearheading an essay competition run by the German student exchange service to write about positive experiences of Germany. The competition, inevitably, is called &#8216;But don&#8217;t mention the war&#8217;.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Nebenbei erfahren wir das Bildungsniveau von <i>Focus<\/i>-Redakteuren.<\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/rungholt.blogg.de\/eintrag.php?id=374#kommentare\" target=_new>Verres\u2019 Kommentar bei Lila<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Endlich mal etwas Vern\u00fcnftiges zum schr\u00e4gen und scheinbar unverbesserlichen Verh\u00e4ltnis, das die Briten zu Deutschland und seinen Bewohnern haben: \u201eStop making fun of the Hun\u201c im Guardian, von Catherine Mayer, der Vorsitzenden der Foreign Press Association in London. \u201cNearly 60 years after Germany laid down arms, Brits appear reluctant to leave the trenches\u2026\u201d Aber auch: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vorspeisenplatte.de\/speisen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vorspeisenplatte.de\/speisen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vorspeisenplatte.de\/speisen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vorspeisenplatte.de\/speisen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vorspeisenplatte.de\/speisen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vorspeisenplatte.de\/speisen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vorspeisenplatte.de\/speisen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vorspeisenplatte.de\/speisen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vorspeisenplatte.de\/speisen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}