{"id":205,"date":"2007-12-14T11:45:02","date_gmt":"2007-12-14T15:45:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/guorui\/2007\/12\/14\/economist-blame-the-secretary-gordon-b"},"modified":"2007-12-14T11:45:02","modified_gmt":"2007-12-14T15:45:02","slug":"economist-blame-the-secretary-gordon-brown-fumbles-in-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/guorui\/2007\/12\/14\/economist-blame-the-secretary-gordon-brown-fumbles-in-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"Economist: Blame the secretary&#8211;Gordon Brown fumbles in Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/agenda\/displaystory.cfm?story_id=10309469&amp;fsrc=RSS\">Blame the secretary<\/a><\/h1>\n<p class=\"info\">Dec 13th 2007 | BRUSSELS<br \/>\nFrom <em>The Economist<\/em> print edition<\/p>\n<h2>Gordon Brown fumbles in Europe<\/h2>\n<p>IT DID not take long for the \u201cMacavity\u201d jibes to start, once word spread that an unconvincing diary clash would prevent Gordon Brown, Britain&#8217;s prime minister, from attending a ceremony in Lisbon to sign the European Union\u2019s controversial reform treaty. When it subsequently emerged that Mr Brown would fly to Lisbon on Thursday December 13th anyway, to sign the treaty discreetly after the main ceremony had finished, the jokes gave way to head-shaking disbelief in several capitals.<br \/>\n&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>(To read more, please click the title. )<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blame the secretary Dec 13th 2007 | BRUSSELS From The Economist print edition Gordon Brown fumbles in Europe IT DID not take long for the \u201cMacavity\u201d jibes to start, once word spread that an unconvincing diary clash would prevent Gordon &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/guorui\/2007\/12\/14\/economist-blame-the-secretary-gordon-brown-fumbles-in-europe\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":242,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1017,82],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-english","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/guorui\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/guorui\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/guorui\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/guorui\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/242"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/guorui\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/guorui\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/guorui\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/guorui\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/guorui\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}