{"id":193057,"date":"2009-01-23T18:40:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-23T23:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/01\/23\/early-elections-in-iceland\/"},"modified":"2009-01-23T18:40:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-23T23:40:00","slug":"early-elections-in-iceland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/01\/23\/early-elections-in-iceland\/","title":{"rendered":"Early Elections in Iceland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Because the citizens of that nation are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601110&amp;sid=ajVchwMWDZ6g\">experiencing the wonders of Milton Friedman&#8217;s theories<\/a>, and so they want to throw the folks out who created this clusterf^%$, with the attendant demonstrations and confrontations with police.<\/p>\n<p>These folks are Viking stock, and I think that soon to be former Prime Minister Geir Haarde, who is not standing for reelection, realized that his head would be on a pike if he did not call for new elections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because the citizens of that nation are experiencing the wonders of Milton Friedman&#8217;s theories, and so they want to throw the folks out who created this clusterf^%$, with the attendant demonstrations and confrontations with police. These folks are Viking stock, and I think that soon to be former Prime Minister Geir Haarde, who is not &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[973,1000,978],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy","category-elections","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193057"}],"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=193057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193057\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}