{"id":38437,"date":"2017-08-25T07:46:20","date_gmt":"2017-08-25T06:46:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=38437"},"modified":"2017-08-25T07:46:20","modified_gmt":"2017-08-25T06:46:20","slug":"the-scottish-economy-and-necessary-reforms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2017\/08\/25\/the-scottish-economy-and-necessary-reforms\/","title":{"rendered":"The Scottish economy and necessary reforms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My thoughts on the Scottish economy, recorded in June:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Journey to Yes #16 Economy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4C8trs8mGhk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>There's one personal aside to this: one commentator said it looked like I needed to lay off pies after viewing this. I agreed. I've lost more than 10kg since then. The problem was buns, not pies, but it's a sacrifice worth making if weight loss increases my chance of staying in action for a lot longer. \u00a0I suspect there is more to lose as yet. I fear I will get to my target before Scotland gets the economic reforms it needs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My thoughts on the Scottish economy, recorded in June: There&#8217;s one personal aside to this: one commentator said it looked like I needed to lay<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2017\/08\/25\/the-scottish-economy-and-necessary-reforms\/\"><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":[35,140,97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-scotland","category-tax-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38437","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=38437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38437\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}