{"id":1320,"date":"2004-05-18T15:54:26","date_gmt":"2004-05-18T23:54:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ogre.nu\/wp\/?p=1320"},"modified":"2004-10-20T18:11:12","modified_gmt":"2004-10-21T02:11:12","slug":"the-former-future-prime-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=1320","title":{"rendered":"the former future prime minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve often <a href=\".\/?p=328\">mocked The Media<\/a> for saying &#8220;former Italian prime minister&#8221; (what kind of prime minister is he now?) and so it is mildly disappointing that I won&#8217;t get to apply the phrase to Mrs Gandhi.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.agonist.org\/archives\/015764.html\">The Agonist<\/a> (cited by <a href=http:\/\/www.j-bradford-delong.net\/movable_type\/2004_archives\/000859.html>Brad DeLong<\/a>) says:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nNews reports said she [Mrs Gandhi] would support Dr. Manmohan Singh, a former finance minister, as prime minister.  A Sikh, he would be India&#8217;s first minority prime minister.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Nu?  India has a majority?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve often mocked The Media for saying &#8220;former Italian prime minister&#8221; (what kind of prime minister is he now?) and so it is mildly disappointing that I won&#8217;t get to apply the phrase to Mrs Gandhi. The Agonist (cited by &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=1320\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language","category-politics","category-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1320\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}