{"id":2447,"date":"2009-11-05T10:30:08","date_gmt":"2009-11-05T10:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jcm.org.uk\/blog\/?p=2447"},"modified":"2009-11-05T10:30:08","modified_gmt":"2009-11-05T10:30:08","slug":"nine-years-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2009\/11\/nine-years-ago\/","title":{"rendered":"Nine years ago&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apropos of not a lot, now that the Treaty of Lisbon&#8217;s all over, what was being said when the similarly disputed and unsatisfactory Treaty of Nice was finally passed back in 2001?<\/p>\n<p>From The Economist,  Vol. 360, Issue 8232 (28th July 2001):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Nice is complex and difficult to understand; in future, the EU must do better in explaining its workings to a European public that seems to be simultaneously bored and irritated by the Union.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sound familiar?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apropos of not a lot, now that the Treaty of Lisbon&#8217;s all over, what was being said when the similarly disputed and unsatisfactory Treaty of Nice was finally passed back in 2001? From The Economist, Vol. 360, Issue 8232 (28th &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2009\/11\/nine-years-ago\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2447"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2448,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2447\/revisions\/2448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}