{"id":194997,"date":"2008-08-04T17:44:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-04T22:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/08\/04\/will-belgium-split\/"},"modified":"2008-08-04T17:44:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-04T22:44:00","slug":"will-belgium-split","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/08\/04\/will-belgium-split\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Belgium Split?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There have always been tensions between the Flemish (Dutch speaking) and Walloon Belgians, and this article implies that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/08\/04\/arts\/04abro.html?em\">the cultural and linguistic difference may push Belgium to a breakup<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This, and the repeated attempts by the Quebecois to secede, are very good examples of how a multilingual society is a dysfunctional society.<\/p>\n<p>Without the language issue, both nations would be among the most tolerant and unified societies on earth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There have always been tensions between the Flemish (Dutch speaking) and Walloon Belgians, and this article implies that the cultural and linguistic difference may push Belgium to a breakup. This, and the repeated attempts by the Quebecois to secede, are very good examples of how a multilingual society is a dysfunctional society. Without the language &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[984,1130,978],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe","category-language","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194997"}],"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=194997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194997\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}