{"id":5916,"date":"2011-12-21T09:51:43","date_gmt":"2011-12-21T15:51:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=5916"},"modified":"2011-12-21T09:51:43","modified_gmt":"2011-12-21T15:51:43","slug":"but-hey-at-least-the-trains-ran-on-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=5916","title":{"rendered":"But hey! At least the trains ran on time!"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/commentisfree\/2011\/dec\/19\/vaclav-havel-another-side-to-story\">Havel&#8217;s anti-communist critique contained little if any acknowledgement of the positive achievements of the regimes of eastern Europe in the fields of employment, welfare provision, education and women&#8217;s rights. Or the fact that communism, for all its faults, was still a system which put the economic needs of the majority first.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(By way of Balko, who calls this &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theagitator.com\/2011\/12\/21\/morning-links-589\/\">The most vile thing you\u2019ll read today.<\/a>&#8221; It is still early, but we feel that we&#8217;re going to have a hard time arguing with that.)<\/p>\n<p>(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/?p=1191\">Obligatory.<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>(And by the way, the whole &#8220;trains ran on time&#8221; thing? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/opinion\/rear-window-making-italy-work-did-mussolini-really-get-the-trains-running-on-time-1367688.html\">Not so much.<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Havel&#8217;s anti-communist critique contained little if any acknowledgement of the positive achievements of the regimes of eastern Europe in the fields of employment, welfare provision, education and women&#8217;s rights. Or the fact that communism, for all its faults, was still a system which put the economic needs of the majority first. (By way of Balko, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-clippings","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5916"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5917,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5916\/revisions\/5917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}