{"id":178986,"date":"2018-06-25T21:14:00","date_gmt":"2018-06-26T02:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/06\/25\/pass-the-popcorn-14\/"},"modified":"2018-06-25T21:14:00","modified_gmt":"2018-06-26T02:14:00","slug":"pass-the-popcorn-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/06\/25\/pass-the-popcorn-14\/","title":{"rendered":"Pass the Popcorn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/sEd2b3j.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/sEd2b3j.gif\" style=\"cursor: pointer; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px;\" width=\"200\" \/><\/a>European leaders are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/europe\/european-leaders-talk-migration-as-germanys-merkel-tries-to-save-political-future\/2018\/06\/24\/89a23266-764e-11e8-bda1-18e53a448a14_story.html\">frantically holding meetings to try to save Merkel&#8217;s political career<\/a>, which threatens to implode over the immigration issue.<\/p>\n<p>If I were in the meetings, I would toss her an anvil, but I&#8217;ve never been a fan.<\/p>\n<p>Also, there is the whole &#8220;Symmetry&#8221; thing:&nbsp; She has been instrumental in applying EU pressure to bring down a number of EU governments, particularly in Italy and Greece, and now she is attempting to rely on the same institutions to preserve her government and her career.<\/p>\n<p>Her problems are largely an artifact of her own political decisions, and bailing her out should not be a priority for the EU.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>European leaders are frantically holding meetings to try to save Merkel&#8217;s political career, which threatens to implode over the immigration issue. If I were in the meetings, I would toss her an anvil, but I&#8217;ve never been a fan. Also, there is the whole &#8220;Symmetry&#8221; thing:&nbsp; She has been instrumental in applying EU pressure to &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[371,630,438,374],"class_list":["post-178986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-europe","tag-european-union","tag-immigration","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178986"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178986\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}