{"id":6889,"date":"2014-10-25T00:04:07","date_gmt":"2014-10-25T07:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalhat.com\/?p=6889"},"modified":"2014-10-25T00:04:07","modified_gmt":"2014-10-25T07:04:07","slug":"dear-belgium-health-does-not-mean-what-you-think-it-means","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2014\/10\/25\/dear-belgium-health-does-not-mean-what-you-think-it-means\/","title":{"rendered":"Dear Belgium: &#8220;Health&#8221; Does Not Mean What You Think It Means"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Despite having multiple official languages, Belgium does not have a translation for the word &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/iowahawkblog\/status\/521505022614327296\" target=\"_blank\">irony<\/a>,&#8221; it would seem.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/sg.news.yahoo.com\/photos\/belgiums-social-affairs-health-minister-maggie-block-shakes-photo-121647648.html\" target=\"_blank\">Presenting<\/a> Belgium&#8217;s new &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Maggie_De_Block\" target=\"_blank\">Minister for Social Affairs and Health<\/a>&#8220;:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\" align=\"center\">\n<p>Satire is Dead: Belgium&#39;s new Minister of Health <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/truestory?src=hash\">#truestory<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/xKhQWGesyn\">pic.twitter.com\/xKhQWGesyn<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; David Burge (@iowahawkblog) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/iowahawkblog\/status\/521505022614327296\">October 13, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><!--more-->&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Perhaps is it not so surprising when one realizes that for Belgium, the paragon of &#8220;health&#8221; is how fast\u00a0 you can <a title=\"Belgium Legalizes Child Killing\" href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2014\/02\/17\/belgium-legalizes-child-killing\/\" target=\"_blank\">euthanize<\/a> <a title=\"Belgium Kills Deaf and Blind Twins\" href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2013\/01\/16\/belgium-kills-deaf-and-blind-twins\/\" target=\"_blank\">undesirables<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Belgium-Health-Minister-de-Block.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Belgium Health Minister de Block\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6890\" srcset=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Belgium-Health-Minister-de-Block.jpg 600w, https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Belgium-Health-Minister-de-Block-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1px) 100vw, 1px\" \/><br \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary\"><meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@PoliticHatBlog\"><meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@ThePoliticalHat\"><meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Dear Belgium: 'Health' Does Not Mean What You Think It Means\"><meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Despite having multiple official languages, Belgium does not have a translation for the word 'irony,' it would seem.\"><meta name=\"twitter:image\" content=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Belgium-Health-Minister-de-Block.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Despite having multiple official languages, Belgium does not have a translation for the word &#8220;irony,&#8221; it would seem.\u00a0 Presenting Belgium&#8217;s new &#8220;Minister for Social Affairs and Health&#8220;: Satire is Dead: Belgium&#39;s new Minister of Health #truestory pic.twitter.com\/xKhQWGesyn &mdash; David Burge &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2014\/10\/25\/dear-belgium-health-does-not-mean-what-you-think-it-means\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6890,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9,70,22],"class_list":["post-6889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-healthcare","tag-europe","tag-facepalm","tag-fail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6889"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7027,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6889\/revisions\/7027"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}