{"id":340,"date":"2010-03-21T23:37:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-21T23:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theinsularempire.com\/?p=340"},"modified":"2014-07-17T21:35:28","modified_gmt":"2014-07-17T21:35:28","slug":"the-washington-post-finally-discovers-guam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theinsularempire.com\/?p=340","title":{"rendered":"The Washington Post Finally Discovers Guam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theinsularempire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Picture-61.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1426\" src=\"https:\/\/theinsularempire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Picture-61.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"345\" height=\"171\" \/><\/a>It was bound to happen eventually &#8211; The Washington Post finally ran a comprehensive (and pretty critical, I might ad) article in tomorrow&#8217;s paper on the proposed military buildup of Guam. (Yes, that&#8217;s right. Tomorrow. Today is the 21st, and the by-line is the 22nd. Don&#8217;t ask me. Maybe it&#8217;s an international dateline thing.)<\/p>\n<p>Anyway. My favorite quote in the article is from Simon A. Sanchez II, chairman of Guam&#8217;s commission on public utilities:&#8221;We don&#8217;t mind being the tip of spear, but we don&#8217;t want to get the shaft.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And I&#8217;m thrilled to report that the final quote is from none other than the fabulous Dr. Natividad:<br \/>\n&#8220;This is old-school colonialism all over again,&#8221; said LisaLinda Natividad, an assistant professor of social work at the University of Guam and an activist opposing the buildup. &#8220;It boils down to our political status &#8212; we are occupied territory.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/03\/21\/AR2010032101025.html\">http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/03\/21\/AR2010032101025.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was bound to happen eventually &#8211; The Washington Post finally ran a comprehensive (and pretty critical, I might ad) article in tomorrow&#8217;s paper on the proposed military buildup of Guam. (Yes, that&#8217;s right. Tomorrow. Today is the 21st, and the by-line is the 22nd. Don&#8217;t ask me. Maybe it&#8217;s an international dateline thing.) Anyway. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-guam-military-buildup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theinsularempire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theinsularempire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theinsularempire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theinsularempire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theinsularempire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=340"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/theinsularempire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2325,"href":"https:\/\/theinsularempire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340\/revisions\/2325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theinsularempire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theinsularempire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theinsularempire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}