{"id":26030,"date":"2009-02-14T16:22:41","date_gmt":"2009-02-14T16:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2009\/02\/14\/strong-ideas-and-exclusionary\/"},"modified":"2009-02-14T16:22:41","modified_gmt":"2009-02-14T16:22:41","slug":"strong-ideas-and-exclusionary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/14\/strong-ideas-and-exclusionary\/","title":{"rendered":"Strong Ideas and Exclusionary Thinking: Obama, Palin and Greek Food in Minneapolis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Christos Greek Restaurant is one of three well-known Greek restaurants in Minneapolis. The other two are It&#8217;s Greek to Me and Gardens of Salonica. Which one you like may be a matter of cultural survival.<\/p>\n<p>It turns out that Greek restaurants in Minneapolis are to the citizens of this area what operating systems and political candidates are to computer users and activists. You&#8217;ve got one you love, and the rest suck. Although I&#8217;ve lived here long enough to be mistaken at times for a native, this particular form of Greek love\/hate is not one I&#8217;ve assimilated. I&#8217;ve been to all three of these restaurants a number of times, and in my view, they each have their strengths and weaknesses. Mostly strengths, actually. Even my friend Lizzie, who normally has a solidly rational view of the world, has a somewhat all or nothing view of the Greek Cuisine in the city. (The fact that she served at one of these restaurants for about a year may be a factor in this case. I&#8217;m not sure.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/quichemoraine.com\/2009\/02\/strong-ideas-and-exclusionary-thinking\/\"><br \/>\n&#8230;. read the rest here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christos Greek Restaurant is one of three well-known Greek restaurants in Minneapolis. The other two are It&#8217;s Greek to Me and Gardens of Salonica. Which one you like may be a matter of cultural survival. It turns out that Greek restaurants in Minneapolis are to the citizens of this area what operating systems and political &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/14\/strong-ideas-and-exclusionary\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Strong Ideas and Exclusionary Thinking: Obama, Palin and Greek Food in Minneapolis<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[404,445,491,504,511,859,4632,773,5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-6LQ","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26030"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26030\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}