{"id":25837,"date":"2014-08-26T16:51:57","date_gmt":"2014-08-26T15:51:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=25837"},"modified":"2014-08-26T16:52:08","modified_gmt":"2014-08-26T15:52:08","slug":"on-being-liked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2014\/08\/26\/on-being-liked\/","title":{"rendered":"On being liked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was amused to note, in the context of many of the comments I've received on this blog and on twitter in the last twenty four hours, this quote that I came across by chance on the web:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>You know, if you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything, wouldn't you, at any time? And you would achieve nothing!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I have quite a lot of sympathy with that, even\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikiquote.org\/wiki\/Margaret_Thatcher\" target=\"_blank\">if not much with the person who said it<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was amused to note, in the context of many of the comments I&#8217;ve received on this blog and on twitter in the last twenty<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2014\/08\/26\/on-being-liked\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25837\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}