{"id":7917,"date":"2016-07-04T22:17:16","date_gmt":"2016-07-05T02:17:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=7917"},"modified":"2016-07-04T22:17:16","modified_gmt":"2016-07-05T02:17:16","slug":"how-the-brexit-mess-unfolded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=7917","title":{"rendered":"How the Brexit mess unfolded"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just came across the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/lukebailey\/the-crisis-explained-maybe\">wittiest explanation<\/a> yet of the Brexit fiasco.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/lukebailey\/the-crisis-explained-maybe\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7918\" src=\"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/downing-street-cat.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"449\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/downing-street-cat.jpg 600w, https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/downing-street-cat-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It would be funny, too, if it weren&#8217;t so painfully true.\u00a0This particular paragraph says it all: &#8220;<em>To recap: One old university friend pushed the country to a constitutional and economic crisis to gain power from another old university friend, but got stabbed in the back by a third old university friend, at which point he decided not to bother after all. GOOD TO KNOW IT WAS ALL WORTH IT.<\/em>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<fb:like href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=7917' 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>I just came across the wittiest explanation yet of the Brexit fiasco. It would be funny, too, if it weren&#8217;t so painfully true.\u00a0This particular paragraph says it all: &#8220;To recap: One old university friend pushed the country to a constitutional and economic crisis to gain power from another old university friend, but got stabbed in <a href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=7917' 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":[25,59,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-humor","category-politics","category-25-id","category-59-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\/7917","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=7917"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7920,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7917\/revisions\/7920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}