{"id":9799,"date":"2020-05-15T11:30:43","date_gmt":"2020-05-15T09:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/?p=9799"},"modified":"2020-05-15T11:30:43","modified_gmt":"2020-05-15T09:30:43","slug":"pity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wehle.ee\/wp\/?p=9799","title":{"rendered":"Pity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2020\/may\/15\/donald-trump-coronavirus-response-world-leaders\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Guardian<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Trump administration has repeatedly claimed that the US is \u201cleading the world\u201d with its response to the pandemic, but it does not seem to be going in any direction the world wants to follow.<\/p>\n<p>Across Europe, Asia, Africa and Latin America, views of the US handling of the coronavirus crisis are uniformly negative and range from horror through derision to sympathy. Donald Trump\u2019s musings from the White House briefing room,\u00a0<a class=\"u-underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/apr\/23\/trump-coronavirus-treatment-disinfectant\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">particularly his thoughts on injecting disinfectant<\/a>, have drawn the attention of the planet.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOver more than two centuries, the United States has stirred a very wide range of feelings in the rest of the world: love and hatred, fear and hope, envy and contempt, awe and anger,\u201d the columnist Fintan O\u2019Toole wrote in the Irish Times. \u201cBut there is one emotion that has never been directed towards the US until now: pity.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In the past couple months I have personally been greeted with sympathy by Turkish and Kurdish restaurant owners when they learned I was from the US. It is definitely a sobering experience to receive sympathy for one&#8217;s land from someone who is without a country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guardian: The Trump administration has repeatedly claimed that the US is \u201cleading the world\u201d with its response to the pandemic, but it does not seem to be going in any direction the world wants to follow. Across Europe, Asia, Africa &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wehle.ee\/wp\/?p=9799\">Weiterlesen <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9799\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}