{"id":1331,"date":"2008-09-28T21:51:11","date_gmt":"2008-09-29T01:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/?p=1331"},"modified":"2008-09-28T21:51:11","modified_gmt":"2008-09-29T01:51:11","slug":"socialists-of-the-world-unite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2008\/09\/28\/socialists-of-the-world-unite\/","title":{"rendered":"Socialists of the World, Unite!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve got a deep and sincere dislike for lazy cynicism, but that&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/business\/2008\/sep\/28\/bradfordbingley.banking2\">about all I&#8217;ve got right now<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The [British] government was this morning expected to nationalise buy-to-let lender Bradford &amp; Bingley, as the global credit crisis deepened with the giant European banking group Fortis also being partially taken into public hands late last night.<br \/>\n[ . . . ]<\/p>\n<p>The crisis spread to Belgium where Fortis, its biggest private employer, became the first big European casualty of the credit crunch. Last night a deal was reached between EU and national banking officials and Belgian, Dutch and Luxembourg ministers; the three governments will pour \u00e2\u201a\u00ac11.2bn into the bank.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Anyone know how to play the fiddle?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve got a deep and sincere dislike for lazy cynicism, but that&#8217;s about all I&#8217;ve got right now: The [British] government was this morning expected to nationalise buy-to-let lender Bradford &amp; Bingley, as the global credit crisis deepened with the giant European banking group Fortis also being partially taken into public hands late last night. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-policy","category-uk"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}