{"id":1168,"date":"2016-08-20T07:41:22","date_gmt":"2016-08-20T14:41:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/outoffog.net\/RESH\/?p=1168"},"modified":"2016-08-20T07:41:22","modified_gmt":"2016-08-20T14:41:22","slug":"unguarded-honesty-no-apologies-necessary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/outoffog.net\/RESH\/?p=1168","title":{"rendered":"Unguarded Honesty, No Apologies Necessary"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"width-padded\">\n<header class=\"article-header\">\n<div class=\"read-left-padding\">\n<h1 class=\"article-headline\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.liberation.fr\/france\/2016\/08\/19\/macron-l-honnetete-m-oblige-a-vous-dire-que-je-ne-suis-pas-socialiste_1473437\" target=\"_blank\">Lib\u00e9ration<\/a> this morning:<\/h1>\n<h1 class=\"article-headline\">Macron: \u00abL&#8217;honn\u00eatet\u00e9 m\u2019oblige \u00e0 vous dire que je ne suis pas socialiste\u00bb<\/h1>\n<div class=\"article-head-metas\"><span class=\"authors\">Par\u00a0<span class=\"author\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.liberation.fr\/auteur\/1850-nathalie-raulin\">Nathalie Raulin<\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/span>\u2014\u00a0<span class=\"date\"><time datetime=\"2016-08-19T13:30:37\">19 ao\u00fbt 2016 \u00e0 13:30<\/time>\u00a0(mis \u00e0 jour \u00e0\u00a0<time datetime=\"2016-08-19T20:13:29\">20:13<\/time>)<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"container-column clearfix\">\n<div class=\"wide-column width-padded-left\">\n<figure class=\"article-image article-header-image\"><a class=\"figure-zoom\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/md1.libe.com\/photo\/902913-000_ac4fd.jpg?modified_at=1471606112&amp;width=960\" alt=\"Emmanuel Macron a rendu hommage \u00e0 Jeanne d'Arc, le\u00a08\u00a0mai \u00e0 Orl\u00e9ans.\" width=\"960\" data-src=\"http:\/\/md1.libe.com\/photo\/902913-000_ac4fd.jpg?modified_at=1471606112&amp;width=960\" data-src-retina=\"http:\/\/md1.libe.com\/photo\/902913-000_ac4fd.jpg?modified_at=1471606112&amp;width=960\" data-lazy-load=\"false\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"read-left-padding caption\"><span class=\"desc\">Emmanuel Macron a rendu hommage \u00e0 Jeanne d&#8217;Arc, le\u00a08\u00a0mai \u00e0 Orl\u00e9ans.<\/span>\u00a0<span class=\"copy\">Photo Guillaume Souvant. AFP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2 class=\"article-standfirst read-left-padding\">En visite au Puy-du-Fou, le ministre de l&#8217;Economie n&#8217;a pas pu s&#8217;emp\u00eacher de l\u00e2cher une petite phrase.<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<p>This is the French Minister of the Economy allowing that he is not really a socialist, the flavour of the current French government. Ho, Hum! You see, neither are most of those sitting on the government benches and nor is the President of the Republic, even though whole herds of them belong to the Socialist Party. None of them lives up to the label, and it was known pretty much, even from the distant sidelines, that Macron was not even as much of a faux-socialist as Valls, the PM, or Hollande, the Prez. After 14 years of Chirac and five of Sarkozy, the French thought, perhaps, they might try the other side of the political spectrum. Turns out that there really is no other side, at least within the realm of electability. This, also, should come as little surprise, given that the preceding 14 years of Mitterrand produced the same level of fundamental change that the French have seen under the Hollande presidency. This is a stark reminder of the value of &#8220;Real Change&#8221; or &#8220;Hope and Change&#8221;, Chr\u00e9tien&#8217;s Red Book or any other promise that there is anything good in store for the broad electorate, and something we might want to keep in mind as we ponder the possibility of a change in leadership here in Beautiful British Columbia.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Lib\u00e9ration this morning: Macron: \u00abL&#8217;honn\u00eatet\u00e9 m\u2019oblige \u00e0 vous dire que je ne suis pas socialiste\u00bb Par\u00a0Nathalie Raulin\u00a0\u2014\u00a019 ao\u00fbt 2016 \u00e0 13:30\u00a0(mis \u00e0 jour \u00e0\u00a020:13) Emmanuel Macron a rendu hommage \u00e0 Jeanne d&#8217;Arc, le\u00a08\u00a0mai \u00e0 Orl\u00e9ans.\u00a0Photo Guillaume Souvant. AFP En &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/outoffog.net\/RESH\/?p=1168\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/outoffog.net\/RESH\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/outoffog.net\/RESH\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/outoffog.net\/RESH\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/outoffog.net\/RESH\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/outoffog.net\/RESH\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1168"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/outoffog.net\/RESH\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1169,"href":"http:\/\/outoffog.net\/RESH\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1168\/revisions\/1169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/outoffog.net\/RESH\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/outoffog.net\/RESH\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/outoffog.net\/RESH\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}