{"id":696,"date":"2007-04-29T12:14:19","date_gmt":"2007-04-29T12:14:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.briangreene.com\/bhg\/2007\/i-felt-embarrassed\/"},"modified":"2007-04-29T12:14:53","modified_gmt":"2007-04-29T12:14:53","slug":"i-felt-embarrassed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/2007\/i-felt-embarrassed\/","title":{"rendered":"I felt embarrassed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#990000\"><strong>[<a href=\"http:\/\/debates.oireachtas.ie\/DDebate.aspx?F=DAL20070425.xml&amp;Node=H2&amp;Page=3\">debate<\/a>] The Taoiseach:<\/strong><\/font>  <a title=\"N181\" name=\"N181\"><\/a>The Deputy is right. <strong>I felt embarrassed<\/strong> a few evenings ago when I watched a country with a population of more than 60 million people receive the results of its highest poll ever &#8211; 85% of the population &#8211; within two hours.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#990000\"><strong>The Taoiseach:<\/strong><\/font> With a bit of luck our election results will be available within about five days&#8212;&#8211;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/89\/252849997_c1db006ef8.jpg?v=0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>thats a run off  semi finals election! not 43 constituencies x STV PR system x 166 TDs. And Bertie 2 hours was the exit polls confirmed, votes took 36-48 hours to tally.<\/p>\n<p><strong><font face=\"courier new\" size=\"5\">viva le peann luaidhe!<\/font><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[debate] The Taoiseach: The Deputy is right. I felt embarrassed a few evenings ago when I watched a country with a population of more than 60 million people receive the results of its highest poll ever &#8211; 85% of the population &#8211; within two hours. The Taoiseach: With a bit of luck our election results&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/2007\/i-felt-embarrassed\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">I felt embarrassed<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election","category-politics","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}