{"id":176269,"date":"2020-07-24T18:49:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-24T23:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/07\/24\/welcome-to-the-brotherhood-of-sh-hole-nations\/"},"modified":"2020-07-24T18:49:00","modified_gmt":"2020-07-24T23:49:00","slug":"welcome-to-the-brotherhood-of-sh-hole-nations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/07\/24\/welcome-to-the-brotherhood-of-sh-hole-nations\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to the Brotherhood of Sh%$-Hole Nations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Much of the Caribbean is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2020-07-23\/americans-not-welcome-in-caribbean-resorts-re-opening-to-tourism\">rolling up the welcome mat to American tourists because of our bungling of the Covid-19 pandemic<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">As Caribbean beaches and resorts begin welcoming back international tourists, there\u2019s one group that\u2019s increasingly being left out: Americans.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">Tropical vacation spots across the region are giving U.S. citizens the cold shoulder amid fears they might spread the coronavirus, cutting Americans off from one of the few regions that was still accessible to them.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">This week, the Bahamas will begin barring commercial flights and passenger ships from the U.S., even as it invites Canadian and European tourists to visit. The Dutch countries of St. Maarten and Curacao have also reopened to almost everyone but U.S. travelers.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So much winning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Much of the Caribbean is rolling up the welcome mat to American tourists because of our bungling of the Covid-19 pandemic: As Caribbean beaches and resorts begin welcoming back international tourists, there\u2019s one group that\u2019s increasingly being left out: Americans. Tropical vacation spots across the region are giving U.S. citizens the cold shoulder amid fears &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[671,588,572,670],"class_list":["post-176269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-caribbean","tag-fail","tag-pandemic","tag-tourism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176269"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176269\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}