{"id":1905,"date":"2014-11-22T07:45:37","date_gmt":"2014-11-22T12:45:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=1905"},"modified":"2014-11-22T07:45:37","modified_gmt":"2014-11-22T12:45:37","slug":"the-need-to-escape-collapsing-empires-international-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=1905","title":{"rendered":"The Need to Escape Collapsing Empires | International Man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.internationalman.com\/articles\/the-need-to-escape-collapsing-empires\">The Need to Escape Collapsing Empires | International Man<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px 0px;\"><strong style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;\">Jeff Thomas:<\/strong>\u00a0What is your present residential\/citizenship situation worldwide?<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px 0px;\"><strong style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;\">Ron Holland:<\/strong>\u00a0I\u2019m an American citizen, living, working, and playing in Canada and elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px 0px;\"><strong style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;\">Jeff:<\/strong>\u00a0What countries have you previously lived or spent significant time in?<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px 0px;\"><strong style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;\">Ron:<\/strong>\u00a0I\u2019m adopted, but I think I was born in North Carolina. I\u2019ve lived in several countries:\u00a0<a style=\"box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; color: #428bca; text-decoration: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial initial;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.internationalman.com\/articles\/tag\/switzerland\" target=\"_blank\"><strong style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;\">Switzerland<\/strong><\/a>; the US; and now Canada, plus I spent a lot of time in\u00a0<a style=\"box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; color: #428bca; text-decoration: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial initial;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.internationalman.com\/articles\/tag\/colombia\" target=\"_blank\"><strong style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;\">Colombia<\/strong><\/a>, Austria, and\u00a0<a style=\"box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; color: #428bca; text-decoration: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial initial;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.internationalman.com\/articles\/tag\/italy\" target=\"_blank\"><strong style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;\">Italy<\/strong><\/a>. My favorite state is South Carolina, where I graduated from the University of South Carolina in banking and finance. Later I headed up a trust department and decades later retired to Hilton Head Island before getting bored and taking a position as CEO with a firm in Canada in 2011.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px 0px;\">South Carolina has quite an independent spirit and has been a nation not once but twice, seceding first from the British Empire then later from the US following the election of Lincoln. As we all know, this didn\u2019t work out too well, and one Washington supporter said, \u201cSouth Carolina is too small to be a nation and too large to be a lunatic asylum.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px 0px;\">&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Need to Escape Collapsing Empires | International Man. Jeff Thomas:\u00a0What is your present residential\/citizenship situation worldwide? Ron Holland:\u00a0I\u2019m an American citizen, living, working, and playing in Canada and elsewhere. Jeff:\u00a0What countries have you previously lived or spent significant time in? Ron:\u00a0I\u2019m adopted, but I think I was born in North Carolina. 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