{"id":35248,"date":"2016-11-06T09:21:15","date_gmt":"2016-11-06T09:21:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=35248"},"modified":"2016-11-06T09:21:15","modified_gmt":"2016-11-06T09:21:15","slug":"hope-is-what-i-am-sticking-with","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2016\/11\/06\/hope-is-what-i-am-sticking-with\/","title":{"rendered":"Hope is what I am sticking with"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I'd like to think that our government has a plan for what it's doing.<\/p>\n<p>But I know it hasn't.<\/p>\n<p>I'd like to think that in their uncertainty they will ask for expert help.<\/p>\n<p>But I know they won't.<\/p>\n<p>I'd like to think that the government would seek to promote calm during the crisis we face.<\/p>\n<p>But I know they're fuelling anger.<\/p>\n<p>I'd like to think that in all the confusion good sense might prevail.<\/p>\n<p>But I know we live in a post-rational world.<\/p>\n<p>I'd like to think that all will eventually turn out well, whatever the government does.<\/p>\n<p>But that means all I am left with is hope.<\/p>\n<p>And hope is what I am sticking with.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;d like to think that our government has a plan for what it&#8217;s doing. But I know it hasn&#8217;t. I&#8217;d like to think that in<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2016\/11\/06\/hope-is-what-i-am-sticking-with\/\"><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":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35248","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=35248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35248\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}