{"id":630,"date":"2009-05-29T05:48:33","date_gmt":"2009-05-29T12:48:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/xsml\/?p=630"},"modified":"2009-05-29T05:48:33","modified_gmt":"2009-05-29T12:48:33","slug":"treading-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/2009\/05\/29\/treading-water\/","title":{"rendered":"treading water"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/05\/29\/world\/europe\/29berlusconi.html?partner=rss&#038;emc=rss\">Berlusconi<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Much of Mr. Berlusconi\u2019s success has stemmed from his uncanny ability to read the national mood. Now many wonder if he has finally miscalculated it and is pushing tolerant Italians too far, and whether his late-career reputation may increasingly resemble the Roman imperial decadence of Fellini\u2019s \u201cSatyricon.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2026And yet, Mr. Berlusconi still governs virtually unopposed. \u201cThe problem is simply that the Italians can\u2019t imagine who could replace Berlusconi at the moment,\u201d said Tim Parks, a novelist and commentator on Italy\u2026<\/p>\n<p>In what many see as a sign of Mr. Berlusconi\u2019s grip on the levers of power in Italy and the Vatican, the Italian Bishops Conference this week essentially gave him a pass, or at least a no comment, calling for \u201cadult behavior,\u201d but saying that each person\u2019s conduct was a matter \u201cof individual conscience.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/xsml\/archives\/355\">Previously<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More Berlusconi: Much of Mr. Berlusconi\u2019s success has stemmed from his uncanny ability to read the national mood. Now many wonder if he has finally miscalculated it and is pushing tolerant Italians too far, and whether his late-career reputation may increasingly resemble the Roman imperial decadence of Fellini\u2019s \u201cSatyricon.\u201d \u2026And yet, Mr. Berlusconi still governs&#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\/630"}],"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=630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}