{"id":4048,"date":"2011-02-07T07:40:07","date_gmt":"2011-02-07T15:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/simonburrow.com\/\/?p=4048"},"modified":"2011-02-07T07:40:07","modified_gmt":"2011-02-07T15:40:07","slug":"unemployment-explained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?p=4048","title":{"rendered":"Unemployment Explained"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was in Washington DC for a screening of my documentary <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beyondbordersfilm.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Beyond Borders<\/strong><\/a> and had some time between meetings so I visited the Postal Museum near Union Station.\u00a0 In the gift shop they sell postcards and it is no surprise that I bought some.\u00a0 In fact I bought all of the President Obama cards they had in stock.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a class=\"tt-flickr tt-flickr-Medium\" title=\"IMG_0772\" href=\"http:\/\/simonburrow.com\/\/photos\/photo\/5424782281\/img_0772.html\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5137\/5424782281_7c2db834e3.jpg?resize=375%2C500\" alt=\"IMG_0772\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">When I started to write them I was amused to find that the postcards of  the President, sold in a museum gift shop that is a branch of the  Smithsonian Museum a venerable US Government institution were &#8220;printed in Korea&#8221;:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a class=\"tt-flickr tt-flickr-Medium\" title=\"IMG_0774\" href=\"http:\/\/simonburrow.com\/\/photos\/photo\/5424783227\/img_0774.html\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5059\/5424783227_3c7c0c4a95.jpg?resize=375%2C500\" alt=\"IMG_0774\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Now you know why the stimulus bill didn&#8217;t work.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was in Washington DC for a screening of my documentary Beyond Borders and had some time between meetings so I visited the Postal Museum near Union Station.\u00a0 In the gift shop they sell postcards and it is no surprise that I bought some.\u00a0 In fact I bought all of the President Obama cards they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-free-postcards"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p99jGb-13i","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4048"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4054,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4048\/revisions\/4054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}