{"id":38796894,"date":"2004-11-05T04:05:50","date_gmt":"2004-11-05T04:05:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.casey.com\/2004\/11\/leavings-not-so.html"},"modified":"2013-04-13T02:28:41","modified_gmt":"2013-04-13T02:28:41","slug":"200411leavings-not-so-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/2004\/11\/05\/200411leavings-not-so-html\/","title":{"rendered":"Leaving&#8217;s Not So Easy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Harper&#8217;s Magazine online has a great article titled <a href=\"http:\/\/harpers.org\/ElectingToLeave.html\">Electing to Leave<\/a> that should be of interest to anyone who threated such action in the face of our current electoral outcome.  Turns out, it&#8217;s not as easy as you might think.  Renouncing your U.S. Citizenship and becoming a citizen somewhere else is a process that can take years.<\/p>\n<p>Take heart and remember, the result was 51-48.  Blue America is not as small as it may feel at the moment.  Instead of fleeing the country, consider instead having an raising some smart kids in a Red state.  It&#8217;s a slow but solid strategy for breaking the strangle of the ignorant majority.<\/p>\n<p><i> thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/politicalwire.com\/cgi-bin\/mt\/mt-tb.cgi\/5900\">Political Wire<\/a> for the story<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harper&#8217;s Magazine online has a great article titled Electing to Leave that should be of interest to anyone who threated such action in the face of our current electoral outcome. Turns out, it&#8217;s not as easy as you might think. Renouncing your U.S. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38796894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3mOvc-2CMQm","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38796894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38796894"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38796894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":173354646,"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38796894\/revisions\/173354646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38796894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38796894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38796894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}