{"id":40027,"date":"2017-12-22T09:37:45","date_gmt":"2017-12-22T09:37:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=40027"},"modified":"2017-12-22T09:37:45","modified_gmt":"2017-12-22T09:37:45","slug":"spare-a-thought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2017\/12\/22\/spare-a-thought\/","title":{"rendered":"Spare a thought"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I liked this from Robert Shrimsley in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/3b1cedb0-e649-11e7-97e2-916d4fbac0da\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the FT this morning<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Spare a thought for Nigel Farage this Christmas. The man who campaigned tirelessly for Brexit has complained in an interview that his career in politics had left him \u201cseparated and skint\u201d. Brits can relate to that. His career in politics has left the UK in the same condition.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Right, thought done.<\/p>\n<p>Now, let's move on, please.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe we'll live in a post Farage era next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I liked this from Robert Shrimsley in the FT this morning: Spare a thought for Nigel Farage this Christmas. The man who campaigned tirelessly for<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2017\/12\/22\/spare-a-thought\/\"><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-40027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40027","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=40027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40027\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}