{"id":125,"date":"2007-09-27T15:00:49","date_gmt":"2007-09-27T22:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheetalsethi.com\/blog\/general\/confused-miss-teen-usa\/"},"modified":"2007-10-05T11:45:34","modified_gmt":"2007-10-05T18:45:34","slug":"confused-miss-teen-usa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sheetalsethi.com\/blog\/lifestyle\/confused-miss-teen-usa\/","title":{"rendered":"Confused &#8211; Miss Teen USA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Miss Teen Carolina was asked a simple question at Miss Teen USA 2007 competition in August and you couldn&#8217;t have hoped for a more inarticulate and messed up response.<\/p>\n<p>She was questioned, as to why she thought a fifth of Americans were not able to locate the US on a world map.<\/p>\n<p>And the result is embarrassing.<\/p>\n<p><embed wmode=\"transparent\" height=\"350\" width=\"425\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/lj3iNxZ8Dww\"><\/embed><\/p>\n<p>Her answer, in its entirety, was: \u201cI personally believe that U.S. Americans are unable to do so because, uhmmm, some people out there in our nation don&#8217;t have maps and uh, I believe that our, I, education like such as, uh, South Africa, and uh, the Iraq, everywhere like such as, and I believe that they should, uhhh, our education over here in the U.S. should help the U.S., uh, should help South Africa, it should help the Iraq and the Asian countries so we will be able to build up our future, for us.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Miss Teen Carolina was asked a simple question at Miss Teen USA 2007 competition in August and you couldn&#8217;t have hoped for a more inarticulate and messed up response. She was questioned, as to why she thought a fifth of Americans were not able to locate the US on a world map. And the result [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,12,3,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-general","category-lifestyle","category-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sheetalsethi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sheetalsethi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sheetalsethi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sheetalsethi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sheetalsethi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.sheetalsethi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sheetalsethi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sheetalsethi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sheetalsethi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}