{"id":22309,"date":"2014-03-15T10:18:25","date_gmt":"2014-03-15T14:18:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=22309"},"modified":"2018-01-11T16:18:27","modified_gmt":"2018-01-11T21:18:27","slug":"qotd-sir-humphrey-appleby-on-the-common-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2014\/03\/15\/qotd-sir-humphrey-appleby-on-the-common-market\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Sir Humphrey Appleby on the Common Market"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8220;We went into it to screw the French by splitting them off from the Germans. The French went in to protect their inefficient farmers from commercial competition. The Germans went in to purge themselves of genocide and apply for readmission to the human race.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Jonathan Lynn, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jonathanlynn.com\/tv\/yes_minister_series\/yes_minister_episode_quotes.htm\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Yes Minister Series: Quotes from the dialogue&#8221;, <em>JonathanLynn.com<\/em><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;We went into it to screw the French by splitting them off from the Germans. The French went in to protect their inefficient farmers from commercial competition. The Germans went in to purge themselves of genocide and apply for readmission to the human race.&#8221; Jonathan Lynn, &#8220;Yes Minister Series: Quotes from the dialogue&#8221;, JonathanLynn.com<\/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":[4,62,1117,1118,57,41],"tags":[337],"class_list":["post-22309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain","category-europe","category-france","category-germany","category-humour","category-quotations","tag-eu"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-5NP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22309","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=22309"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22310,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22309\/revisions\/22310"}],"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=22309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}