{"id":720,"date":"2018-12-31T23:53:55","date_gmt":"2018-12-31T23:53:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/?p=720"},"modified":"2018-12-31T23:53:55","modified_gmt":"2018-12-31T23:53:55","slug":"carping-complacency-and-collusion-in-the-carpathian-basement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/2018\/12\/31\/carping-complacency-and-collusion-in-the-carpathian-basement\/","title":{"rendered":"Carping, Complacency and Collusion in the Carpathian Basement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:K\u00e1roly_Lotz_(1833-1904)_painter_Galloping_Outlaw.jpg\"><img width='400' height='248' border='0' hspace='5' align='right' src='\/~totl\/skywritings\/uploads\/betyar.jpg' alt='' \/><\/a>There really does seem to be <a href=\"http:\/\/hungarianspectrum.wordpress.com\/2013\/11\/23\/the-fidesz-robber-barons-part-i\/\">something unique<\/a> in the blend of carping, complacency and collusion in the Carpathian Basin. If it&#8217;s not in the genes (as hyperbolically hypothesized by the Kossuth-prize winning novelist<a href=\"http:\/\/www2.macleans.ca\/2013\/11\/18\/a-far-right-turn\/\"> Akos Kertesz<\/a> &#8212; for which he then had to seek asylum in Canada at age 80), maybe it&#8217;s in the drinking water?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There really does seem to be something unique in the blend of carping, complacency and collusion in the Carpathian Basin. If it&#8217;s not in the genes (as hyperbolically hypothesized by the Kossuth-prize winning novelist Akos Kertesz &#8212; for which he then had to seek asylum in Canada at age 80), maybe it&#8217;s in the drinking &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/2018\/12\/31\/carping-complacency-and-collusion-in-the-carpathian-basement\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Carping, Complacency and Collusion in the Carpathian Basement&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3074,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3074"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=720"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":721,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720\/revisions\/721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}