{"id":49,"date":"2004-11-23T15:35:09","date_gmt":"2004-11-23T15:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.briangreene.com\/bhg\/?p=49"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T23:00:00","slug":"irish-leaders-unexpected-embrace-of-socialism-is-causing-a-stir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/2004\/irish-leaders-unexpected-embrace-of-socialism-is-causing-a-stir\/","title":{"rendered":"Irish Leader&#8217;s Unexpected Embrace of Socialism Is Causing a Stir"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear:both;\"><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;After 10 years at the helm of Ireland&#8217;s dominant political party, Prime Minister Bertie Ahern marked the occasion recently with a surprising revelation &#8211; a political coming out of sorts &#8211; that has had Ireland in a spin.<\/p>\n<p>His declaration was as simple as it was unexpected: &#8216;I am one of the few socialists left in Irish politics,&#8217; he said in an interview with The Irish Times on Nov. 13, shocking his colleagues, infuriating his opponents and bewildering the public into wondering what kind of leader it had elected.&#8221;<br \/>&#8212;<br \/>FF the workers party? I think not, but it got the headlines, perhaps the next election will see a real swing to the left. And joe Higgins suit returned with some FF seats.<br \/>FIANNA FAILure THE RUBICAN PARTY<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both; padding-bottom: 0.25em;\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;After 10 years at the helm of Ireland&#8217;s dominant political party, Prime Minister Bertie Ahern marked the occasion recently with a surprising revelation &#8211; a political coming out of sorts &#8211; that has had Ireland in a spin. His declaration was as simple as it was unexpected: &#8216;I am one of the few socialists left&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/2004\/irish-leaders-unexpected-embrace-of-socialism-is-causing-a-stir\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Irish Leader&#8217;s Unexpected Embrace of Socialism Is Causing a Stir<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}