{"id":5,"date":"2005-04-14T21:57:15","date_gmt":"2005-04-14T11:57:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/?p=5"},"modified":"2005-06-26T18:10:26","modified_gmt":"2005-06-26T08:10:26","slug":"three-items-of-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/?p=5","title":{"rendered":"Three items of news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three items of news have gained some prominance today: the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.elitestv.com\/pub\/2005\/Apr\/EEN425d2a73ac3d7.html\">Indonesian volcanoes erupting<\/a> in the vicinity of the recent earthquake and tsunami activity; a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dw-world.de\/dw\/article\/0,1564,1551948,00.html\">deadly flu virus<\/a> distributed across the world in flu testing kits; and  a first look at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/newsitems\/200504\/s1344811.htm\">one of the oldest stars in the universe<\/a>. Amidst all these cataclysmic natural forces and plagues, it seems almost churlish to remark on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theaustralian.news.com.au\/common\/story_page\/0,5744,12855286%255E1702,00.html\">a politician breaking an election promise<\/a> doesn&#8217;t it? Why should we be worried about an erosion in health care funding promises in the face of tectonic plates doing their bump and grind in the Sunda Strait. <\/p>\n<p>The way the media has juxtaposed these items &#8211; the way the volcanic activity demonstrated precursor signs that perhaps might have given some warning &#8211; alongside a politician signalling a promise of further erosions to come, gives a kind of air of <em>natural forces<\/em> to the acts of our political leaders. Quite clever when you think about it!<\/p>\n<p>Cheers<br \/>\nJerry<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three items of news have gained some prominance today: the Indonesian volcanoes erupting in the vicinity of the recent earthquake and tsunami activity; a deadly flu virus distributed across the world in flu testing kits; and a first look at one of the oldest stars in the universe. Amidst all these cataclysmic natural forces and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}