{"id":4356,"date":"2008-04-07T17:10:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-07T17:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=4356"},"modified":"2017-11-12T06:08:08","modified_gmt":"2017-11-12T12:08:08","slug":"a-positive-spin-on-a-recession","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/07\/a-positive-spin-on-a-recession\/","title":{"rendered":"A Positive Spin on a Recession"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <i>St. Louis Post-Dispatch<\/i> front page headline on Sunday put a positive spin on any potential recession or economic slowing:<\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/beltheadline.jpg\" width=\"600\" title=\"Recessions cause belt-tightening\" alt=\"Recessions cause belt-tightening\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>That is: <b>A recession would have a positive impact on the obesity epidemic in America!<\/b>  I mean, if you&#8217;re tightening your belt, you&#8217;re losing weight, am I right?<\/p>\n<p>Apparently, the <i>Post-Dispatch<\/i> thought it over and didn&#8217;t want any positive spin on it at all, which is why the story is entitled <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/stltoday\/business\/stories.nsf\/story\/859AB59AFBB75B498625742300075FB8?OpenDocument\" target=\"_blank\">As the economy slips, consumer face tough choices<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Still, a recession or, even better, a depression, would get Americans back down to sustenance level calories, which would no doubt prepare us for a post-Kyotoesque-treaty economy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The St. Louis Post-Dispatch front page headline on Sunday put a positive spin on any potential recession or economic slowing: That is: A recession would have a positive impact on the obesity epidemic in America! I mean, if you&#8217;re tightening your belt, you&#8217;re losing weight, am I right? Apparently, the Post-Dispatch thought it over and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,29,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines","category-news","category-st-louis-post-dispatch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4356"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17529,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4356\/revisions\/17529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}