{"id":11920,"date":"2011-11-04T09:01:54","date_gmt":"2011-11-04T13:01:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=11920"},"modified":"2018-01-11T16:01:51","modified_gmt":"2018-01-11T21:01:51","slug":"opening-moments-of-the-g20-in-cannes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2011\/11\/04\/opening-moments-of-the-g20-in-cannes\/","title":{"rendered":"Opening moments of the G20 in Cannes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the tone of the article, even the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2011\/nov\/03\/g20-summit-roll-call-doom\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Guardian<\/em><\/a> is finding it hard to take the politicians seriously this time:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The red carpet was drenched and sodden, the palm trees battered by a storm and even the trumpet fanfares of the French Republican Guard were muffled by the wind.<\/p>\n<p>Nicolas Sarkozy&#8217;s glittering G20 summit at Cannes was supposed to be a showcase for his skill as the caped crusader: Super Sarko, fighting his way through the markets and eurozone crisis to rescue his personal damsel in distress, France&#8217;s endangered AAA-credit rating.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, the opening hours on the French Riviera seemed more like a muted crisis-gathering of head-scratching politicians, some staring into the jaws of political death, fearing being punished at the ballot box or hung out to dry by their own governments.<\/p>\n<p>Even without the specially summoned whipping boy, the Greek prime minister George Papandreou &mdash; who had a constantly furrowed brow and clasped hands, as pressure was heaped on him over his resignation-referendum ping-ping &mdash; the red-carpet arrivals ceremony often looked like a roll call of doom.<\/p>\n<p>Silvio Berlusconi arrived in the rain with a huge black overcoat perched on his shoulders, shoulder pads visible from space, likened by his own press corps to a mafia boss from the Sopranos.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the tone of the article, even the Guardian is finding it hard to take the politicians seriously this time: The red carpet was drenched and sodden, the palm trees battered by a storm and even the trumpet fanfares of the French Republican Guard were muffled by the wind. Nicolas Sarkozy&#8217;s glittering G20 summit at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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":[1117,84,1526,339,28,53],"tags":[432,578],"class_list":["post-11920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-france","category-government","category-greece","category-italy","category-media","category-politics","tag-diplomacy","tag-g20"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-36g","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11920"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41678,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11920\/revisions\/41678"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}