{"id":355,"date":"2009-01-31T22:46:51","date_gmt":"2009-02-01T05:46:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/xsml\/?p=355"},"modified":"2009-01-31T22:46:51","modified_gmt":"2009-02-01T05:46:51","slug":"the-second-as-farce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/2009\/01\/31\/the-second-as-farce\/","title":{"rendered":"the second as farce"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What would Italian fascism look like within the context of the EU, the G8 and NATO? Would we recognize it?<\/p>\n<p>Silvio Berlusconi <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iht.com\/articles\/2008\/12\/01\/europe\/italy.php\">controls<\/a> the media he doesn&#8217;t own outright. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601087&#038;sid=a4dC41AAUHFU&#038;refer=home\">Organized crime<\/a> is now that nation&#8217;s most important industry. The country is  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spiegel.de\/international\/europe\/0,1518,569080,00.html\">flirting<\/a> with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/life_and_style\/food_and_drink\/article5622156.ece\">state-sponsored<\/a> xenophobia. Its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/comment\/3557277\/Italy-The-sick-man-of-Europe.html\">political system<\/a> is at the breaking point.<\/p>\n<p>The first time it&#8217;s tragedy, the second time it&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/reporting\/2008\/11\/03\/081103fa_fact_stille\">farce<\/a>. Only, it&#8217;s not very funny.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What would Italian fascism look like within the context of the EU, the G8 and NATO? Would we recognize it? Silvio Berlusconi controls the media he doesn&#8217;t own outright. Organized crime is now that nation&#8217;s most important industry. The country is flirting with state-sponsored xenophobia. Its political system is at the breaking point. The first&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}