{"id":191,"date":"2003-10-17T07:36:10","date_gmt":"2003-10-17T11:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/wordpress\/?p=191"},"modified":"2003-10-17T07:36:10","modified_gmt":"2003-10-17T11:36:10","slug":"generous-george","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=191","title":{"rendered":"Generous George"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nytimes.com\/2003\/10\/17\/international\/middleeast\/17COST.html?pagewanted=print&#038;position=\">This NYT&#8217;s article<\/a> reports on the Senate&#8217;s 51-to-47 vote Thursday evening to insist Iraq repay up to $10 billion in reconstruction unless the administration can &#8216;convince&#8217; creditors that $150 to $200 billion in foreign debt be forgiven.<\/p>\n<p>The House disagrees.<\/p>\n<p>Politicians and the games they play.  Why not cite this<a href=\"http:\/\/www.misleader.org\/daily_mislead\/Read.asp?fn=df10172003.html\"> Daily Misleader article <\/a>that states the only reason more funds are being requested now is to avoid bad publicity during next year&#8217;s reelection coverage?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This NYT&#8217;s article reports on the Senate&#8217;s 51-to-47 vote Thursday evening to insist Iraq repay up to $10 billion in reconstruction unless the administration can &#8216;convince&#8217; creditors that $150 to $200 billion in foreign debt be forgiven. The House disagrees. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=191\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-35","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}