{"id":1602,"date":"2009-10-26T15:57:24","date_gmt":"2009-10-26T19:57:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=1602"},"modified":"2009-10-26T15:57:24","modified_gmt":"2009-10-26T19:57:24","slug":"tony-blair-for-holy-roman-emperor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/1602\/tony-blair-for-holy-roman-emperor\/","title":{"rendered":"Tony Blair for Holy Roman Emperor?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Although the official title would be &#8220;President of the European Union&#8221;, Tony Blair&#8217;s private campaign to become the face of the European bureaucracy recalls the mid-level horsetrading and indeterminate power structure of the Holy Roman Empire.  According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/id\/219422\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Newsweek<\/em><\/a>, no less than 27 heads of state will meet to confer the prestige of speaking on behalf of Europe to the world.  As with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Habsburgs-Andrew-Wheatcroft\/dp\/0140236341\" target=\"_blank\">Habsburgs<\/a>, Blair&#8217;s Catholicism, fluency in French, and ability to please several ethnic and geographical interests at once are smoothing the path towards becoming the next in a long line of Continental potentates.<\/p>\n<p>As for the actual job description, it&#8217;s still unclear what Blair would be expected to do with the post. Who knows; perhaps he could find work for that <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bill_Clinton\" target=\"_blank\">other politician<\/a> of the Baby Boom Generation that refuses to go away&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although the official title would be &#8220;President of the European Union&#8221;, Tony Blair&#8217;s private campaign to become the face of the European bureaucracy recalls the mid-level horsetrading and indeterminate power structure of the Holy Roman Empire. According to Newsweek, no less than 27 heads of state will meet to confer the prestige of speaking on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[372,375,374,373,371],"class_list":["post-1602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-european-union","tag-habsburgs","tag-holy-roman-empire","tag-newsweek","tag-tony-blair"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1602"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1605,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1602\/revisions\/1605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}