{"id":2795,"date":"2010-10-29T18:18:59","date_gmt":"2010-10-29T18:18:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2795"},"modified":"2010-10-29T18:18:59","modified_gmt":"2010-10-29T18:18:59","slug":"doomed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2795","title":{"rendered":"Doomed!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you want to kick off your weekend on a positive note, whatever you do, don&#8217;t read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/10\/29\/opinion\/29krugman.html\">Paul Krugman&#8217;s latest opinion piece<\/a>. He writes that a Republican takeover of the House will ensure several more years of political instability and economic weakness. I want to believe that things won&#8217;t be quite so dire, but it&#8217;s difficult to argue with his underlying assumptions. The economy could still recover quickly in spite of Washington gridlock, but most of the economists I&#8217;ve read seem to think that&#8217;s unlikely. Then again, the future has a tendency to unfold in ways that don&#8217;t quite go according to plan. <\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.zemanta.com\/pixy.gif?w=695\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you want to kick off your weekend on a positive note, whatever you do, don&#8217;t read Paul Krugman&#8217;s latest opinion piece. He writes that a Republican takeover of the House will ensure several more years of political instability and economic weakness. I want to believe that things won&#8217;t be quite so dire, but it&#8217;s <a href='https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2795' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s9Iwau-doomed","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2795\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}