{"id":476,"date":"2003-11-03T21:10:30","date_gmt":"2003-11-03T21:10:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/2003\/11\/dude_wheres_my\/"},"modified":"2003-11-03T21:10:30","modified_gmt":"2003-11-03T21:10:30","slug":"dude_wheres_my","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/2003\/11\/dude_wheres_my\/","title":{"rendered":"Dude Where&#8217;s My Country"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well our recent school trip to Milan afforded me the chance to buy the airport paperback version of Michael Moore&#8217;s latest &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0713997001\">Dude Where&#8217;s My Country<\/a>.<br \/>\nNever the toughest read &#8211; but that&#8217;s why he sold so many of the last book &#8211; it does what it says on the jacket in an efficient manner.<br \/>\nI suppose I&#8217;m a little disappointed that there&#8217;s not more. Somehow I feel that his forthcoming film, Farehenheit 9\/11 will cover some of the detail a lot more effectively, but maybe it&#8217;s because I agree with it all too easily.<br \/>\nThis book very much focuses on America, and that&#8217;s definitely his strong suit.  I felt before that his coverage of other countries, in particular the Irish problem, was a tad simplistic to put it mildly. Mind you, he&#8217;s visited Northern Ireland now (something I&#8217;ve never done) and is likelier to have a more balenced view. On the other hand his Middle East bit is again a tad over-simplified.<br \/>\nBut you just can&#8217;t knock the guy, as he&#8217;s just trying to shake the whole damn country out a political hangover that somehow left George W Bush as the singlemost powerful man on the planet &#8211; a scary thought for anyone. Anything we can do to fight this apathy is good by me.<br \/>\nI guess that I was a little disappointed that by the time I got just over page 200 the book was over, and I was left with (plenty of) footnotes.  But short and to the point isn&#8217;t a bad thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>0713997001<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}