{"id":491,"date":"2006-10-10T19:37:43","date_gmt":"2006-10-10T19:37:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/?p=491"},"modified":"2006-10-11T20:28:23","modified_gmt":"2006-10-11T20:28:23","slug":"what-54-billion-gets-you-these-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/?p=491","title":{"rendered":"What 5.4 billion gets you these days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/uk_politics\/6033687.stm\">1 ID card system<\/a> for the first ten years (read: 1 extremely rich IT consultancy firm and no working ID card database)<\/p>\n<p>About <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/scotland\/5387750.stm\">7% of a new nuclear deterrent<\/a>. (which is the greater waste of money?)<br \/>\nAround 100 new hospitals.<\/p>\n<p>1000 pounds of tax back in the hands of every man, woman and child in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Over 200,000 of these&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.roundshot.ch\/xml_1\/internet\/de\/application\/d438\/d925\/f934.cfm\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The image \u201chttp:\/\/www.roundshot.ch\/pictures\/Seitz-6x17-handheld.jpg\u201d cannot be displayed, because it contains errors.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.roundshot.ch\/pictures\/Seitz-6x17-handheld.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8230; anyway&#8230;. I digress. What a neat beard that man has.<br \/>\nBeen listening to Sinead O&#8217;Connor (Lion and the Cobra) and the Waterboys (eponymous) a bit tonight. It&#8217;s been a long time. Makes me feel old and young at once. And it&#8217;s good to have a sing along now and again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1 ID card system for the first ten years (read: 1 extremely rich IT consultancy firm and no working ID card database) About 7% of a new nuclear deterrent. (which is the greater waste of money?) Around 100 new hospitals. 1000 pounds of tax back in the hands of every man, woman and child in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[37,16,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}