{"id":530,"date":"2008-04-07T15:57:13","date_gmt":"2008-04-07T14:57:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.branedy.net\/?p=530"},"modified":"2010-11-22T14:51:36","modified_gmt":"2010-11-22T13:51:36","slug":"hail-brian-cowen-prince-and-heir-to-king-bertie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/?p=530","title":{"rendered":"Hail Brian Cowen, Prince and heir to king Bertie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Brian_Cowen\"> Brian Cowen<\/a> the anointed heir (prince) apparent of the Irish nation still can&#8217;t explain the Billion dollar surplus revenue one year and deficit the next. Heir to the man who banks out of a suitcase, and quiet keeper of skeletons in the closet, will soon take the reins of government. Is there anyone out there that might believe things will get better? <\/p>\n<p>If most of the politicians in Fianna F\u00c3\u00a1il rode into government on Bertie&#8217;s coat tails, how many could ride in to it now, on Brian&#8217;s? Wouldn&#8217;t it be more democratic, if there were new elections? So that maybe, the people of Ireland could choose what government they had? <\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: I&#8217;m vindicated, Brian is the Worst thing to happen to Ireland since Cromwell! <\/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>Brian Cowen the anointed heir (prince) apparent of the Irish nation still can&#8217;t explain the Billion dollar surplus revenue one year and deficit the next. Heir to the man who banks out of a suitcase, and quiet keeper of skeletons<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/?p=530\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hail Brian Cowen, Prince and heir to king Bertie<\/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":[64,42,38,13,57,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bertiegate","category-corruption","category-democracy","category-ireland","category-irishelection","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530","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=530"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2007,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530\/revisions\/2007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}