{"id":56576,"date":"2016-12-05T04:24:46","date_gmt":"2016-12-05T04:24:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/renzi_goes_down_to_defeat_in_italian_referendum\/"},"modified":"2016-12-05T04:24:46","modified_gmt":"2016-12-05T04:24:46","slug":"renzi_goes_down_to_defeat_in_italian_referendum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=56576","title":{"rendered":"Renzi goes down to Defeat in Italian Referendum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Italy?src=hash\">#Italy<\/a>&#39;s Renzi Congratulates Winners of the Vote. Said he was the one who lost, and assumes responsibility for No&#39;s loss. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/85iehomkta\">pic.twitter.com\/85iehomkta<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Holger Zschaepitz (@Schuldensuehner) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Schuldensuehner\/status\/805553328138649600\">December 4, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p> Italy plunged into political and economic uncertainty early Monday after voters rejected a constitutional reform upon which Prime Minister Matteo Renzi had staked his government. The result is certain to reverberate across a European Union already buffeted by political upheaval and anti-establishment anger.<\/p>\n<p>Ostensibly the vote was about arcane changes to Italy\u2019s Constitution that would have streamlined government. But opposition to the reforms came from the same anti-establishment sentiment \u201d\u201d spiked with skepticism of globalization, open borders and the feasibility of an ever-closer European Union \u201d\u201d that has transformed the politics of a growing list of European countries.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/12\/04\/world\/europe\/italy-matteo-renzi-referendum.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>#Italy&#39;s Renzi Congratulates Winners of the Vote. Said he was the one who lost, and assumes responsibility for No&#39;s loss. pic.twitter.com\/85iehomkta &mdash; Holger Zschaepitz (@Schuldensuehner) December 4, 2016 Italy plunged into political and economic uncertainty early Monday after voters rejected<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=56576\">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":[40,50,149,168,200,144,448,151,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-economy","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-europe","category-foreign-relations","category-italy","category-politics-in-general","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56576","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=56576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56576\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}