{"id":998,"date":"2006-06-22T12:49:28","date_gmt":"2006-06-22T17:49:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/lunch-break\/"},"modified":"2006-06-22T12:49:28","modified_gmt":"2006-06-22T17:49:28","slug":"lunch-break","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/lunch-break","title":{"rendered":"Lunch break!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s a neat post at the Cato Institute’s blog-group, about the scandals of former (and now late) Irish PM Charles Haughey<\/a>:<\/p>\n

[W]as Ireland better off with a corrupt prime minister who kick-started economic growth than it would have been with an honest socialist who kept Ireland in poverty?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Back to work!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here’s a neat post at the Cato Institute’s blog-group, about the scandals of former (and now late) Irish PM Charles Haughey: [W]as Ireland better off with a corrupt prime minister who kick-started economic growth than it would have been with an honest socialist who kept Ireland in poverty? Back to work!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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-998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-g6","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12738,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/tom-spurgeon-memorial-service-dec-14-2019","url_meta":{"origin":998,"position":0},"title":"Tom Spurgeon Memorial Service – Dec. 14, 2019","author":"Gil","date":"December 21, 2019","format":"audio","excerpt":"Virtual Memories Show: Tom Spurgeon Memorial Service, Dec. 14, 2019 \"I had an amazing life, and my love for my family is unsurpassed, followed nearly as much as the love for my closest friends. 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