{"id":3521,"date":"2012-07-26T13:02:50","date_gmt":"2012-07-26T17:02:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=3521"},"modified":"2012-07-26T13:02:50","modified_gmt":"2012-07-26T17:02:50","slug":"gems-from-hungary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=3521","title":{"rendered":"Gems from Hungary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here are some recent gems from my country of birth, all uttered this week by Hungary&#8217;s ever so democratic prime minister:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;[C]ounterrevolutionary attempts are under way in the higher education establishment&#8221;\u00a0\u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/index.hu\/belfold\/2012\/07\/24\/ellenforradalmi_kiserleteket_lat_orban\/\">July 24<\/a>, in a speech to leaders of his party&#8217;s youth organization.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;We hope that it will not be necessary to introduce a new political system in place of democracy, but new economic systems, new concepts are necessary.&#8221;\u00a0\u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/index.hu\/gazdasag\/magyar\/2012\/07\/26\/orban\/\">July 26<\/a>, speaking to the National Association of Entrepreneurs and Employers.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Unity is not a matter of intent but a matter of strength. Perhaps there are countries where it doesn&#8217;t work this way, for instance in Scandinavia, but such a half-Asian rabble like us can only unite when there is strength. This does not exclude consultations, debate and democracy, but we need a central unity, which can be deduced from the country&#8217;s historical experience.&#8221;\u00a0\u2013 July 26, as above.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It must be great to know that the future of democracy in Hungary is in such committed, firm hands.<\/p>\n<fb:like href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=3521' send='true' layout='standard' show_faces='true' width='450' height='65' action='like' colorscheme='light' font='lucida grande'><\/fb:like>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are some recent gems from my country of birth, all uttered this week by Hungary&#8217;s ever so democratic prime minister: &#8220;[C]ounterrevolutionary attempts are under way in the higher education establishment&#8221;\u00a0\u2013 July 24, in a speech to leaders of his party&#8217;s youth organization. &#8220;We hope that it will not be necessary to introduce a new <a href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=3521' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hungary","category-politics","category-21-id","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3521"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3527,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3521\/revisions\/3527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}