{"id":472,"date":"2007-08-08T19:34:38","date_gmt":"2007-08-08T18:34:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.branedy.net\/?p=472"},"modified":"2007-08-08T19:34:38","modified_gmt":"2007-08-08T18:34:38","slug":"bertie-is-in-great-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/?p=472","title":{"rendered":"Bertie is in great company"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I stumbled upon this today and while I never thought that my low opinion was supported by anyone else, when people start betting on  <a href=\"http:\/\/data.intrade.com\/graphing\/jsp\/closingPricesForm.jsp?contractId=503873\">Bertie Ahern to depart as Taoiseach on\/before 31 Dec 07<\/a>  it makes me chuckle. This places Bertie in the same &#8216;Good&#8217; company as <a href=\"http:\/\/data.intrade.com\/graphing\/jsp\/closingPricesForm.jsp?contractId=503867\">Robert Mugabe to depart as President of Zimbabwe on\/before 31 Dec 07<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/data.intrade.com\/graphing\/jsp\/closingPricesForm.jsp?contractId=467351\">George W. Bush to be impeached by House of Representatives before end of his term in office<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>I makes you wonder what they all have in common&#8230;corruption, lies and dishonesty. All the things a good politican needs to get elected. <\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I stumbled upon this today and while I never thought that my low opinion was supported by anyone else, when people start betting on Bertie Ahern to depart as Taoiseach on\/before 31 Dec 07 it makes me chuckle. This places<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/?p=472\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bertie is in great company<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\"> &#8250;<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,42,13,57,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bertiegate","category-corruption","category-ireland","category-irishelection","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}