{"id":23446,"date":"2019-11-04T10:39:02","date_gmt":"2019-11-04T17:39:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/?p=23446"},"modified":"2019-11-04T10:39:03","modified_gmt":"2019-11-04T17:39:03","slug":"tell-me-why-moodys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/?p=23446","title":{"rendered":"Tell me why (Moody&#8217;s)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dailymaverick.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/h_50618174.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tell me why (Moody&#8217;s)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tell me why<br>we are to join<br>the dubious ranks&nbsp;<br>of the downgraded<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(I mean the country<br>has just been upgraded<br>to number 1 as it beat<br>England in a little game)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tell me why<br>we seem to be&nbsp;<br>your whipping boy<br>responsible for all<br>the ills of planet earth<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We are not after all<br>bombing invading<br>or waging war&nbsp;<br>against any country&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(we are only at war<br>with ourselves and<br>our women and children<br>not to mention those<br>who don&#8217;t look like us)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">there is concern in Soweto<br>about Marathon runners&#8217; safety<br>was the Ethiopian winner at risk<br>what with an politician waxing on&nbsp;<br>about different cultures and races<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">and an amnesiac sports presenter&nbsp;<br>says at the end that the rugby win&nbsp;<br>was for the whole of Africa<br>(where has she been most recently)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tell me why<br>Moody&#8217;s<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">is it the economy<br>stupid<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tell me why (Moody&#8217;s) Tell me whywe are to jointhe dubious ranks&nbsp;of the downgraded (I mean the countryhas just been upgradedto number 1 as it beatEngland in a little game) Tell me whywe seem to be&nbsp;your whipping boyresponsible for allthe ills of planet earth We are not after allbombing invadingor waging war&nbsp;against any country&nbsp; (we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[731,83,732],"class_list":["post-23446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-david-kapp","tag-south-africa","tag-the-very-unfortunate","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23446"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23447,"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23446\/revisions\/23447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}