{"id":3326,"date":"2009-03-27T15:10:26","date_gmt":"2009-03-27T22:10:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/?p=3326"},"modified":"2009-03-27T15:10:26","modified_gmt":"2009-03-27T22:10:26","slug":"it-is-true-i-am-to-blame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/it-is-true-i-am-to-blame\/","title":{"rendered":"it is true, I am to blame"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"460\" height=\"276\" data-attachment-id=\"3327\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/it-is-true-i-am-to-blame\/gordon-brown-with-brazili-001\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/gordon-brown-with-brazili-001.jpg?fit=460%2C276&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"460,276\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"gordon-brown-with-brazili-001\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/gordon-brown-with-brazili-001.jpg?fit=460%2C276&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/gordon-brown-with-brazili-001.jpg?fit=460%2C276&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3327\" title=\"gordon-brown-with-brazili-001\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/gordon-brown-with-brazili-001.jpg?resize=460%2C276&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"gordon-brown-with-brazili-001\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/gordon-brown-with-brazili-001.jpg?w=460&amp;ssl=1 460w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/gordon-brown-with-brazili-001.jpg?resize=125%2C75&amp;ssl=1 125w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 460px) 100vw, 460px\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This crisis was fostered and boosted by irrational behaviour of some people that are white, blue-eyed. Before the crisis they looked like they knew everything about economics, and they have demonstrated they know nothing about economics.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That&#8217;s a quote of the Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva from yesterday during a meeting with UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown. Another translation records his descriptive phrase of those responsible for the current economic meltdown as &#8220;white people with blue eyes&#8221;, and as such, yes, I am to blame.<\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2009\/mar\/26\/lula-attacks-white-bankers-crash\" target=\"_blank\">the guardian reports<\/a>]<\/p>\n<div class='ctx-module-container ctx_default_placement ctx-clearfix'><\/div><span class=\"ctx-article-root\"><!-- --><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This crisis was fostered and boosted by irrational behaviour of some people that are white, blue-eyed. Before the crisis they looked like they knew everything about economics, and they have demonstrated they know nothing about economics. That&#8217;s a quote of the Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva from yesterday during a meeting with UK [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3327,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[137],"series":[],"class_list":["post-3326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-quote"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/gordon-brown-with-brazili-001.jpg?fit=460%2C276&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6OfVu-RE","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3326"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3329,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3326\/revisions\/3329"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3326"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=3326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}