{"id":181822,"date":"2016-03-08T19:44:00","date_gmt":"2016-03-09T00:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/03\/08\/headline-of-the-day-112\/"},"modified":"2016-03-08T19:44:00","modified_gmt":"2016-03-09T00:44:00","slug":"headline-of-the-day-112","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/03\/08\/headline-of-the-day-112\/","title":{"rendered":"Headline of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/business\/news\/article.cfm?c_id=3&amp;objectid=11601381\"><b><span style=\"font-size: 150%; font-variant: small-caps;\">Clowns Kicked out of Trans Pacific Partnership Roadshow<\/span><\/b><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a real headline, and it does not refer to the people trying to sell that piece of unmitigated crap, it refers to actual clowns:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Four people dressed as clowns have been kicked out of the first stop of the Government&#8217;s Trans-Pacific Partnership information roadshow in Auckland.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The quartet were honking horns, blowing balloons and laughing, Newstalk ZB reported.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Master of Ceremonies Sean Plunket asked those also present at the roadshow to vote on whether they should be allowed to stay, before they were escorted out by police.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The 12-country agreement is designed to free up trade and investment between the countries, but has been a beacon for controversy for several years, mainly due to the secrecy of the deal, lack of public consultation and fears New Zealand&#8217;s sovereignty could be diminished. Widespread protests occurred when it was signed in Auckland a month ago, and traffic in the city was brought to a halt by protesters who blocked roads and motorway on and off-ramps.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I do understand why they were thrown out.<\/p>\n<p>The real clowns are the people in suits trying to sell the deal. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clowns Kicked out of Trans Pacific Partnership Roadshow. It&#8217;s a real headline, and it does not refer to the people trying to sell that piece of unmitigated crap, it refers to actual clowns: Four people dressed as clowns have been kicked out of the first stop of the Government&#8217;s Trans-Pacific Partnership information roadshow in Auckland.The &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1002,1016,1015],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-good-writing","category-international-commerce","category-weird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181822"}],"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=181822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181822\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}