{"id":11699,"date":"2013-04-23T18:20:18","date_gmt":"2013-04-24T01:20:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=11699"},"modified":"2013-04-23T18:20:18","modified_gmt":"2013-04-24T01:20:18","slug":"economists-agree-were-in-the-situation-of-a-bunch-of-different-metaphors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2013\/04\/23\/economists-agree-were-in-the-situation-of-a-bunch-of-different-metaphors\/","title":{"rendered":"Economists agree: we&#8217;re in the situation of a bunch of different metaphors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I like the fact that the BBC dredged up this &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/business-22223249\">Cat in tree&#8221; photo<\/a> to illustrate the metaphor of &#8230; the global economy being like a cat stuck in a tree.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11705 alignleft\" alt=\"catintree\" src=\"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/catintree-300x168.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/catintree-300x168.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/catintree.jpg 464w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>\u00c2\u00a0 It makes me wonder what other stock images, easily grabbed by looking the phrases up on google, that they could pull out.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Imagine the headline that things are like &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The current global economy is like&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re Up a Creek Without A Paddle!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-11706 alignleft\" alt=\"boatwithoutapaddle\" src=\"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/boatwithoutapaddle-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>\u00c2\u00a0 OR MAYBE&#8230; What we&#8217;re seeing is all a DOG AND PONY SHOW. \u00c2\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-11707\" alt=\"dogandponyshow\" src=\"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/dogandponyshow-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Or&#8230; Everything&#8217;s Gone to Pot.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-11708\" alt=\"potleaf\" src=\"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/potleaf-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/potleaf-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/potleaf.jpg 224w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Well, those will be the next BBC articles on the topic of the global economy, I presume.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I like the fact that the BBC dredged up this &#8220;Cat in tree&#8221; photo to illustrate the metaphor of &#8230; the global economy being like a cat stuck in a tree. \u00c2\u00a0 It makes me wonder what other stock images, easily grabbed by looking the phrases up on google, that they could pull out. &nbsp; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11699"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11709,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11699\/revisions\/11709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}