{"id":605,"date":"2008-09-26T08:01:40","date_gmt":"2008-09-26T12:01:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bohls.org\/?p=605"},"modified":"2008-09-26T08:01:40","modified_gmt":"2008-09-26T12:01:40","slug":"the-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bohls.org\/blog\/2008\/09\/26\/the-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"The Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oh, maybe I should explain.<\/p>\n<p>Another reason I liked the previous quote from <em>The Mayor of Casterbridge <\/em>so much is because of the financial meltdown we&#8217;ve been experiencing lately. And the bailout plan that&#8217;s been floated by Secretary Paulson.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday there was the\u00a0 big summit at the White House, trying to hammer out a final deal. Apparently the House Republicans staged some sort of revolt, also apparently with the support of Senator McCain. I imagine the scene as something like this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[W]ith the demand and response of real cash the jovial frivolity of the scene departed. A lurid colour seemed to fill the tent, and change the aspect of all therein &#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You think?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh, maybe I should explain. Another reason I liked the previous quote from The Mayor of Casterbridge so much is because of the financial meltdown we&#8217;ve been experiencing lately. And the bailout plan that&#8217;s been floated by Secretary Paulson. Yesterday there was the\u00a0 big summit at the White House, trying to hammer out a final &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bohls.org\/blog\/2008\/09\/26\/the-crisis\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Crisis<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bohls.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bohls.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bohls.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bohls.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bohls.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.bohls.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bohls.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bohls.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bohls.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}