{"id":31447,"date":"2014-06-19T14:35:18","date_gmt":"2014-06-19T12:35:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebkmag.com\/?p=31447"},"modified":"2014-06-19T14:35:18","modified_gmt":"2014-06-19T12:35:18","slug":"a-letter-to-me-from-the-president-of-france-francois-hollande","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebkmag.com\/rebuild\/bkblog\/a-letter-to-me-from-the-president-of-france-francois-hollande\/","title":{"rendered":"A Letter to me from the President of France Francois Hollande"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I recently wrote an article on my Blog called<strong>\u00a0<a title=\"Saying No to Marine Le Pen...\" href=\"https:\/\/thebkmag.com\/2014\/05\/02\/saying-no-to-marine-le-pen-national-front-yes-france-their-competing-in-real-world\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Saying NO to Marine Le Pen-The National Front and Yes to France and their Competing in the Real World\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thebkmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/seal-of-france.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-31460\" src=\"https:\/\/thebkmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/seal-of-france-453x450.jpg\" alt=\"seal of france\" width=\"453\" height=\"450\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I sent the <a title=\"Saying No to Marine LePen\" href=\"https:\/\/thebkmag.com\/me6w\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>above article<\/strong><\/a> to the <strong>Office of the President of France<\/strong> <strong>Francois Hollande<\/strong>, not expecting to hear back from him or his Secretary. Well Lo and Behold, not only did I receive this letter, the letter was requested by Francois Hollande to be written to me directly. It was sent to me from his <strong>Chief of Staff Sylvie Hubac<\/strong>. I am impressed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thebkmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/President-of-France.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-31450\" src=\"https:\/\/thebkmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/President-of-France-326x450.jpg\" alt=\"President of France\" width=\"326\" height=\"450\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thebkmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/President-of-France-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-31456\" src=\"https:\/\/thebkmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/President-of-France-1-650x326.jpg\" alt=\"President of France 1\" width=\"650\" height=\"326\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently wrote an article on my Blog called Saying NO to Marine Le Pen-The National Front and Yes to France and their Competing in the Real World<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31460,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[10],"tags":[1080,379,1200,1202,1207,1208],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paG8MM-8bd","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":31248,"url":"https:\/\/thebkmag.com\/rebuild\/eclectic\/saying-no-to-marine-le-pen-national-front-yes-france-their-competing-in-real-world\/","url_meta":{"origin":31447,"position":0},"title":"Saying NO to Marine Le Pen-The National Front and Yes to France and their Competing in the Real World","author":"Benjamin Kanarek","date":"May 2, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"This is going to be a very short yet succinct article of my perceptions of Marine Le Pen, the National Front and saying NO to her and YES to France and a bit of advice that may aid it in becoming more competitive in the Real World","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Eclectic&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Eclectic","link":"https:\/\/thebkmag.com\/rebuild\/category\/eclectic\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Marine Le Pen","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thebkmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/marine-le-pen-650x433.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thebkmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/marine-le-pen-650x433.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thebkmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/marine-le-pen-650x433.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":24663,"url":"https:\/\/thebkmag.com\/rebuild\/eclectic\/anger-france-again-flirting-extreme-right-marine-lepen\/","url_meta":{"origin":31447,"position":1},"title":"Anger that France Again is Flirting with the Extreme Right Marine Le Pen","author":"Benjamin Kanarek","date":"February 16, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"This will be a short but bitter rant. 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