{"id":8361,"date":"2002-11-18T17:19:05","date_gmt":"2002-11-18T22:19:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2002\/11\/18\/the-sovereign-nation-of-no-bra-zil\/"},"modified":"2002-11-18T17:19:05","modified_gmt":"2002-11-18T22:19:05","slug":"the-sovereign-nation-of-no-bra-zil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2002\/11\/the-sovereign-nation-of-no-bra-zil\/","title":{"rendered":"The sovereign nation of No Bra-zil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=#3333ff>No man is an island, but Albert LaFontaine says his strip<br \/>\nclub is.<br \/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=#3333ff>The Ojibwe man bought a former pizza parlor in tiny Elko<br \/>\nin early October, declared the land a sovereign Indian nation and said he&#8217;ll<br \/>\nignore any government&#8217;s attempt to close it.<br \/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=#3333ff>&#8220;There ain&#8217;t no way on God&#8217;s Earth that they&#8217;re going to<br \/>\nstop me,&#8221; said LaFontaine, of St. Paul. It&#8217;s not the first time LaFontaine has<br \/>\nsaid that.<br \/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=#3333ff>The 82-year-old man who in 1959 offered to sell a third<br \/>\nof North Dakota to the Soviet Union has put forth a variety of schemes to build<br \/>\ncasinos on land that he&#8217;s bought and declared sovereign.<\/font> [<a\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.twincities.com\/mld\/twincities\/news\/local\/4532705.htm\"\ntarget=_blank>Full story<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m surprised the Clinton administration didn&#8217;t send an<br \/>\nAmbassador.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No man is an island, but Albert LaFontaine says his strip club is. The Ojibwe man bought a former pizza parlor in tiny Elko in early October, declared the land&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8361\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}