{"id":10483,"date":"2009-01-02T16:00:44","date_gmt":"2009-01-02T16:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/world_bids_adieu_to_a_rocky_2008_worries_over_09\/"},"modified":"2009-01-02T16:00:44","modified_gmt":"2009-01-02T16:00:44","slug":"world_bids_adieu_to_a_rocky_2008_worries_over_09","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=10483","title":{"rendered":"World bids adieu to a rocky 2008; worries over &#39;09"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For many around the world watching the new year arrive, 2008 had not been pretty. Slumping stocks. Disappearing jobs.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m looking forward to 2009,&#8221; said Randolph King of England, whose retirement fund was gutted in the global financial crisis. &#8220;Because it can&#8217;t get much worse.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>After the most volatile financial year in decades, people paused for a deep breath and a sip of &#8230; perhaps something cheaper than champagne.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20081231\/ap_on_re_eu\/world_new_year\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For many around the world watching the new year arrive, 2008 had not been pretty. Slumping stocks. Disappearing jobs. &#8220;I&#8217;m looking forward to 2009,&#8221; said Randolph King of England, whose retirement fund was gutted in the global financial crisis. &#8220;Because<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=10483\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,149,119,151],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-economy","category-globalization","category-politics-in-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10483\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}