{"id":11929,"date":"2017-10-22T15:00:06","date_gmt":"2017-10-22T13:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2017\/10\/22\/how-i-stopped-worrying-and-learned-to-love-brexit-arwa-mahdawi\/"},"modified":"2017-10-22T15:00:06","modified_gmt":"2017-10-22T13:00:06","slug":"how-i-stopped-worrying-and-learned-to-love-brexit-arwa-mahdawi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=11929","title":{"rendered":"How I stopped worrying and learned to love Brexit | Arwa Mahdawi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a year and a half of remoaning, I\u2019ve decided to blindly follow our wise leaders to a post-EU wonderland. It\u2019s as if a 350m-tonne weight has suddenly been liftedIt\u2019s taken a while but I\u2019ve finally seen the light. After months of relentless remoaning, I\u2019ve realised that, actually, this whole Brexit business isn\u2019t such a bad idea after all. In fact, I\u2019ve decided Brexit is brilliant. And you know what? Letting go of my elitist reservations and embracing Brexit was one of the best decisions I\u2019ve ever made.As soon as I climbed aboard the Brexit bus, I felt liberated; it was as if a 350m-tonne weight had been lifted. I gave up uselessly fretting about the future of Britain, the country where I was born \u2013 and where I feel very lucky to have been born \u2013 and which I love. Patriotism, I realised, isn\u2019t wanting the best for your country, it\u2019s blindly trusting politicians to do what\u2019s best for your country. Ours is not to reason why, ours is but to do and die, and all that. Anyway, it was like magic: as soon as I understood what being a patriot really means, I felt a lot happier about life, the EUniverse and everything. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2017\/oct\/22\/arwa-mahdawi-brexit\" target=\"_blank\">How I stopped worrying and learned to love Brexit | Arwa Mahdawi<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a year and a half of remoaning, I\u2019ve decided to blindly follow our wise leaders to a post-EU wonderland. It\u2019s as if a 350m-tonne weight has suddenly been liftedIt\u2019s taken a while but I\u2019ve finally seen the light. After months of relentless remoaning, I\u2019ve realised that, actually, this whole [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11929\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}