{"id":179645,"date":"2017-12-07T18:40:00","date_gmt":"2017-12-07T23:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/12\/07\/snark-of-the-day-23\/"},"modified":"2017-12-07T18:40:00","modified_gmt":"2017-12-07T23:40:00","slug":"snark-of-the-day-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/12\/07\/snark-of-the-day-23\/","title":{"rendered":"Snark of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/waterfordwhispersnews.com\/2017\/12\/05\/ireland-to-receive-e13bn-from-apple-after-getting-unlocked-by-chinese-guy-in-market\/\"><b><span style=\"font-size: 150%; font-variant: small-caps;\">Ireland To Receive \u20ac13bn From Apple After Getting Unlocked By Chinese Guy In Market<\/span><\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">The Irish government will finally be able to collect the \u20ac13bn in taxes owed by the Apple corporation, after having the entire country unlocked by a Chinese guy working out of a shop in Moore Street called Extra Good Phone Unlock &amp; Afro Caribbean Hair Product Store.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n<p>[Irish Minister for Finance Paschal] <span style=\"color: blue;\">Donohoe proudly announced that the newly unlocked Ireland was now free of the tax loopholes that allowed the massive multinational corporation to pay next to no tax for a number of years, and that the 50 euro bill for the unlocking would be subtracted from the Department of Social Protection\u2019s budget next year.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cWe\u2019ve now got a country that is not stuck in contract, so we can do whatever we want,\u201d beamed Donohoe, picking up a few punnets of cherries while waiting on Moore Street for the country.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;This if f%$#ing brilliant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ireland To Receive \u20ac13bn From Apple After Getting Unlocked By Chinese Guy In Market The Irish government will finally be able to collect the \u20ac13bn in taxes owed by the Apple corporation, after having the entire country unlocked by a Chinese guy working out of a shop in Moore Street called Extra Good Phone Unlock &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":[446,365,630,464,390,480,382],"class_list":["post-179645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-budget","tag-business","tag-european-union","tag-good-writing","tag-snark","tag-taxes","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179645"}],"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=179645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179645\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}