{"id":289,"date":"2005-04-14T10:48:34","date_gmt":"2005-04-14T17:48:34","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=289"},"modified":"2005-04-14T10:50:32","modified_gmt":"2005-04-14T17:50:32","slug":"france-makes-me-laugh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/france-makes-me-laugh\/","title":{"rendered":"France makes me laugh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the same <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/europe\/4442823.stm\">BBC article<\/a>, about France&#8217;s threat of rejecting the EU constitution:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Two months ago, approval looked certain, but now opinion polls suggest a majority will vote No on 29 May.<\/p>\n<p>Critics say the new EU is too committed to free-market economics and threatens France&#8217;s cherished social mode<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And then:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The run-up to the referendum comes amid mounting discontent at high levels of unemployment and economic stagnation in France.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I suppose it never occured to the French that their &#8220;cherished social model&#8221; is the reason for their &#8220;high levels of unemployment and economic stagnation.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the same BBC article, about France&#8217;s threat of rejecting the EU constitution: Two months ago, approval looked certain, but now opinion polls suggest a majority will vote No on 29 May. Critics say the new EU is too committed to free-market economics and threatens France&#8217;s cherished social mode And then: The run-up to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[7],"class_list":["post-289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-everything","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}