{"id":588,"date":"2011-02-25T15:45:25","date_gmt":"2011-02-25T14:45:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/premesso.newcontrarian.com\/?p=588"},"modified":"2011-02-25T15:45:25","modified_gmt":"2011-02-25T14:45:25","slug":"friday-am-briefs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/premesso.com\/?p=588","title":{"rendered":"Friday AM briefs"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 430px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.clandestinoweb.com\/images\/stories\/111AAANUOVOCLANDESTINO\/ITALIA\/POLITICA\/FLI\/fini%20fli.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.clandestinoweb.com\/images\/stories\/111AAANUOVOCLANDESTINO\/ITALIA\/POLITICA\/FLI\/fini%20fli.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"430\" height=\"187\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Unctuous? <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>There&#8217;s way too much news this week, from the Libya to the <em>milleproroghe<\/em>, from <a title=\"mk econ\" href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/node\/18237055?story_id=18237055\" target=\"_blank\">Macedonia&#8217;s<\/a> electoral crisis to the role of social media in the events that have shaken the Arab world. \u00a0 Fini&#8217;s proclamation that the PM was not &#8216;<a title=\"non unto\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rainews24.rai.it\/it\/news.php?newsid=150404\" target=\"_blank\">anointed\u00a0by the lord&#8217;<\/a> may hint at the beginning of the end on this side of the\u00a0Mediterranean\u00a0as well.<\/p>\n<p>Look for a more thorough weekend update as your chronicler has other deadlines to meet this mild Friday morning.<\/p>\n<p>For those who&#8217;ve spent time east of\u00a0Apennines, ponder this bit from the <em>Economist&#8217;s<\/em><a title=\"econ review gilmore\" href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/node\/18226545?story_id=18226545\" target=\"_blank\"> review<\/a> of David Gilmour&#8217;s\u00a0<em>The Pursuit of Italy: A History of a Land, its Regions and their Peoples. <\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Italy\u2019s north-south divide remains gaping, too (though, as the author says, there is a less well known east-west divide either side of the Apennines).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s way too much news this week, from the Libya to the milleproroghe, from Macedonia&#8217;s electoral crisis to the role of social media in the events that have shaken the Arab world. \u00a0 Fini&#8217;s proclamation that the PM was not &#8216;anointed\u00a0by the lord&#8217; may hint at the beginning of the end on this side of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/premesso.com\/?p=588\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Friday AM briefs&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,17,23,32,36,45,63],"tags":[140,423,432,437,439,256,355],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/premesso.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/premesso.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/premesso.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/premesso.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/premesso.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/premesso.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/premesso.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/premesso.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/premesso.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}