{"id":2336,"date":"2009-01-19T18:34:18","date_gmt":"2009-01-19T23:34:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/?p=2336"},"modified":"2009-01-19T18:34:18","modified_gmt":"2009-01-19T23:34:18","slug":"call-me-a-traitor-im-pulling-for-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2009\/01\/19\/call-me-a-traitor-im-pulling-for-france\/","title":{"rendered":"Call Me a Traitor &#8211; I&#8217;m Pulling for France"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Superfrenchie <a href=\"http:\/\/superfrenchie.com\/?p=1817\">alerts us<\/a> to a truly appalling <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2009\/jan\/17\/france-america-import-tariffs\">exit move by the Bush Admin<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Less than a week before it leaves office, the Bush administration has sparked anger across the Atlantic by tripling the import duty rate on roquefort cheese to 300%, a move which the US hopes will &#8220;shut down trade&#8221; in the sheep&#8217;s milk product by making it prohibitively expensive.<\/p>\n<p>The decision, part of Washington&#8217;s attempts to force the EU into dropping its ban on hormone-treated beef, was greeted with disbelief by the French government and by farmers in the south-western Aveyron region who depend on the industry for their livelihoods.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be buying a half pound of Roquefort this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Superfrenchie alerts us to a truly appalling exit move by the Bush Admin: Less than a week before it leaves office, the Bush administration has sparked anger across the Atlantic by tripling the import duty rate on roquefort cheese to 300%, a move which the US hopes will &#8220;shut down trade&#8221; in the sheep&#8217;s milk [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-policy"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2336","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=2336"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2337,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2336\/revisions\/2337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}