{"id":580,"date":"2008-08-03T12:36:01","date_gmt":"2008-08-03T11:36:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.branedy.net\/?p=580"},"modified":"2008-08-03T12:36:01","modified_gmt":"2008-08-03T11:36:01","slug":"ireland-in-isolation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/?p=580","title":{"rendered":"Ireland in Isolation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This article highlights a danger for Ireland <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/08\/03\/business\/worldbusiness\/03global.html?_r=2&#038;partner=rssnyt&#038;emc=rss&#038;oref=slogin&#038;oref=slogin\"> Shipping Costs Start to Crimp Globalization<\/a>. <strong>Ireland is an Island!<\/strong> Almost everyone I&#8217;ve met in Ireland never think of Ireland as an Island <i>(the center of the universe maybe, just not an Island)<\/i>. We have become so complacent about the availability of foreign goods and produce, we have forgotten that without cheap oil, we will have to live within our own agricultural means. Something the Lisbon &#8220;Yes&#8221; folks don&#8217;t seem to get yet. They believe that the mobile economy will balance the trade products and that putting fishermen and farmers out of business will not harm Ireland as a whole. Cheap oil has made this possible, and is no more. No more cheap fruit, and beef, no more massive highways and individual car ownership. <\/p>\n<p>John Lennon sang <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Imagine_(song)\"> Imagine<\/a>, just Imagine no Oil. <\/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>This article highlights a danger for Ireland Shipping Costs Start to Crimp Globalization. Ireland is an Island! Almost everyone I&#8217;ve met in Ireland never think of Ireland as an Island (the center of the universe maybe, just not an Island).<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/?p=580\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ireland in Isolation<\/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":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,53,50,68,4,13,35,33,8,49],"tags":[106,663],"class_list":["post-580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy","category-energy","category-food","category-government","category-history","category-ireland","category-lifestyle","category-oil","category-politics","category-world-events","tag-add-new-tag","tag-oil"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580","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=580"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":581,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580\/revisions\/581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}