{"id":1079,"date":"2010-11-01T00:26:13","date_gmt":"2010-10-31T22:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ofcourseimright.com\/?p=1079"},"modified":"2010-11-01T00:26:13","modified_gmt":"2010-10-31T22:26:13","slug":"hurray-brazil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/?p=1079","title":{"rendered":"Hurray Brazil!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"border: 0pt none; margin: 4px;\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/3\/3c\/Lula_-_foto_oficial05012007_edit.jpg\/400px-Lula_-_foto_oficial05012007_edit.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"177\" height=\"265\" \/>It&#8217;s not a very big story on this side of the planet, and with an estimated population of 201 million people, that&#8217;s a bit sad on it&#8217;s own, but we should at least take note that in overseeing elections in Brazil, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Luiz_In%C3%A1cio_Lula_da_Silva\">President Lula Da Silva<\/a> is about to achieve what is the most important thing for a government in that part of the world: a peaceful transition of power.\u00a0 It&#8217;s not the first time for Brazil, either, as Lula himself succeeded <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fernando_Henrique_Cardoso\">Fernando Henrique Cardoso<\/a> in 2003, who himself had succeeded <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Itamar_Franco#Presidency\">Itamar Franco<\/a>.\u00a0 Another sign of the health of Brazil is that neither Franco nor FHC are  wanted men, and have not been shown to have been corrupt.\u00a0 This is not the way with many other countries.\u00a0 Good luck to the candidates vying to succeed Lula!\u00a0 They have both big shoes to fill and a great democracy to oversee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s not a very big story on this side of the planet, and with an estimated population of 201 million people, that&#8217;s a bit sad on it&#8217;s own, but we should at least take note that in overseeing elections in Brazil, President Lula Da Silva is about to achieve what is the most important thing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/?p=1079\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Hurray Brazil!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":172,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[365,364],"class_list":["post-1079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-brazil","tag-lula"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/172"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1079"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1097,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1079\/revisions\/1097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}