{"id":1684,"date":"2008-06-14T03:54:47","date_gmt":"2008-06-13T18:54:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/?p=1684"},"modified":"2008-07-12T03:09:52","modified_gmt":"2008-07-11T18:09:52","slug":"selfish-brats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/06\/14\/selfish-brats\/","title":{"rendered":"Selfish brats&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is a lot I would like to write about the recent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2008\/jun\/13\/ireland\">news from Ireland<\/a>&#8230;<br \/>\nBut frankly, I can&#8217;t be arsed and it would be nothing you couldn&#8217;t read elsewhere anyway.<\/p>\n<p>So to keep it short and bitter, I&#8217;ll just say that, as a fierce Euro-hopeful, I&#8217;m doubly disappointed by this result. Not only because it drags the once promising European process further into the ditch where it&#8217;s been for the past couple years, but also that Ireland, of all countries, had to be the one responsible for doing so.<\/p>\n<p>If by now you haven&#8217;t heard a thousands times how Ireland virtually owes a <em>huge<\/em> share of its current miracle economic success to the very European solidarity process they have just bailed out on, then you must have been sleeping for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iro.ie\/EU-structural-funds.html\">the past 20 years<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s bad enough seeing people and countries act as selfish me-first teenagers, but when said country was until not so long a clear beneficiary of such solidarity and decides to leave as soon as they are finally asked to pitch in&#8230; That&#8217;s both infuriating and slightly dispiriting about people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a lot I would like to write about the recent news from Ireland&#8230; But frankly, I can&#8217;t be arsed and it would be nothing you couldn&#8217;t read elsewhere anyway. So to keep it short and bitter, I&#8217;ll just say that, as a fierce Euro-hopeful, I&#8217;m doubly disappointed by this result. Not only because [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe","category-le-sigh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1684\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}