{"id":342,"date":"2010-08-16T16:21:37","date_gmt":"2010-08-16T16:21:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kerstinpur.de\/?p=342"},"modified":"2010-08-16T16:21:37","modified_gmt":"2010-08-16T16:21:37","slug":"a-young-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kerstinhack.de\/en\/ein-junges-land\/","title":{"rendered":"A young country"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Having reached the westernmost point of my journey, I am still struck by how young this country is, and by how many events that I had filed away as \u201ehistorical\u201c actually took place only very recently.<\/p>\n<p>The gold rush and the resulting development of the city of Sacramento \u2013 whose city centre still boasts a number of authentic Western-style houses \u2013 took place just over a hundred years ago.<\/p>\n<p>I currently live in one of the few houses in San Francisco that survived the devastating earthquake of 1906 and the fires that destroyed almost the entire city.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday I told a girl about Rosa Parks, the Montgomery Bus Strike and Martin Luther King\u2026 that wasn\u2019t even a lifetime ago\u2026 I even once met MLK Jr.\u2019s assistant \u2013 whatever his name is here.<\/p>\n<p>I can now understand better why Obama so often points out in his speeches \u2013 as he did recently at the university in Texas \u2013 that the nation is still a work in progress. 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And because, unlike in countries that are already more firmly established, there is still so much more possible here, and we need people who will make the most of these opportunities for the good of all.<\/p>\n<p><!-- AddToAny BEGIN --><br \/> <a class=\"a2a_dd\" href=\"http:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share_save?linkurl=http%3A%2F%2Fkersthackde.onpressidium.com%2Fallgemein%2Fein-junges-land%2F&amp;linkname=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.addtoany.com\/buttons\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a><br \/> <script type=\"text\/javascript\"> var a2a_config = a2a_config || {}; a2a_config.linkurl = \"https:\/\/kerstinhack.de\/allgemein\/ein-junges-land\/\"; <\/script><br \/> <script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/static.addtoany.com\/menu\/page.js\"><\/script><br \/> <!-- AddToAny END --><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Am westlichen Punkt meiner Reise angekommen, bewegt es mich nach wie vor, wie jung dieses Land ist, wie viele Ereignisse, die ich als &#8222;historisch&#8220; abgespeichert hatte, erst vor&#8230;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_seopress_news_disabled":"","_seopress_video_disabled":"","_seopress_video":[],"_seopress_pro_schemas_manual":[],"_seopress_pro_rich_snippets_disable_all":"","_seopress_pro_rich_snippets_disable":[],"_seopress_pro_schemas":[],"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_wp_convertkit_post_meta":{"form":"-1","landing_page":"0","tag":"0","restrict_content":"0"},"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32,1],"tags":[101,247,248,19,34,249,250,157,251,252,204],"class_list":["post-342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beziehung-naehe","category-leben-meistern-swing","tag-ausland","tag-burgerrecht","tag-erdbeben","tag-erlebnisse","tag-geschichte","tag-martin-luther-king","tag-nation","tag-reisen","tag-rosa-parks","tag-san-francisco","tag-usa"],"featured_image_data":null,"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":32,"label":"Beziehung und N\u00e4he"},{"value":1,"label":"Leben meistern - 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