{"id":182,"date":"2006-08-29T11:35:04","date_gmt":"2006-08-29T15:35:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oddempire.org\/weblog\/?p=182"},"modified":"2006-08-29T11:35:04","modified_gmt":"2006-08-29T15:35:04","slug":"cucumber-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/2006\/08\/29\/cucumber-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Cucumber season!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>In Britain we call it the \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00cb\u0153silly season\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2 &#8211; in Poland it\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s called the \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00cb\u0153cucumber season\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2, when the media starts to fill up with nonsense.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Letter from Poland<br \/>\nby Peter Gentle<\/p>\n<p>29.08.06<\/p>\n<p>Polish politicians came back from their holidays last wee k and immediately started knocking lumps out of each other.<\/p>\n<p>Polish journalists breathed a sigh of relief. Without politicians journalists have no stories about politicians to write about. And when journalists have no political stories they go into a kind of delirium tremor \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u20ac\u0153 they get the shakes. \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00cb\u0153What to write about\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2 they fret as they toss and turn themselves to sleep at night, story-less for the next day.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.polskieradio.pl\/polonia\/article.asp?tId=41156&#038;j=2\">More&#8230;&#8230;.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Britain we call it the \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00cb\u0153silly season\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2 &#8211; in Poland it\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s called the \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00cb\u0153cucumber season\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2, when the media starts to fill up with nonsense. Letter from Poland by Peter Gentle 29.08.06 Polish politicians came back from their holidays last &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/2006\/08\/29\/cucumber-season\/\">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":{"nf_dc_page":"","WB4WB4WP_MODE":"","WB4WP_PAGE_SCRIPTS":"","WB4WP_PAGE_STYLES":"","WB4WP_PAGE_FONTS":"","WB4WP_PAGE_HEADER":"","WB4WP_PAGE_FOOTER":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}