{"id":4940,"date":"2011-09-07T06:58:54","date_gmt":"2011-09-07T13:58:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/simonburrow.com\/\/?p=4940"},"modified":"2011-08-27T12:24:15","modified_gmt":"2011-08-27T19:24:15","slug":"the-spoon-and-the-pot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?p=4940","title":{"rendered":"The Spoon and the Pot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a class=\"tt-flickr tt-flickr-Small\" title=\"P2260007\" href=\"http:\/\/simonburrow.com\/\/photos\/photo\/6086101695\/p2260007.html\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6199\/6086101695_478308a8da_m.jpg?resize=164%2C240\" alt=\"P2260007\" width=\"164\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I heard a member of the Mexican Congress speak recently and he used a Mexican folk proverb to explain how the government works.\u00a0 It translates roughly:<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\">&#8220;The spoon is the same as the pot&#8221;<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Which I took to mean that the &#8220;spoon&#8221; (politicians) are a the same as the &#8220;pot&#8221; (population).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a class=\"tt-flickr tt-flickr-Small\" title=\"P2060051\" href=\"http:\/\/simonburrow.com\/\/photos\/photo\/6086101493\/p2060051.html\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6186\/6086101493_9bfeeb0b17_m.jpg?resize=240%2C180\" alt=\"P2060051\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I think that the same thing applies around the world.\u00a0 At least it does here in the USA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I heard a member of the Mexican Congress speak recently and he used a Mexican folk proverb to explain how the government works.\u00a0 It translates roughly: &#8220;The spoon is the same as the pot&#8221; Which I took to mean that the &#8220;spoon&#8221; (politicians) are a the same as the &#8220;pot&#8221; (population). I think that the [&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":[11,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-simon-says"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p99jGb-1hG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4940","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=4940"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4942,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4940\/revisions\/4942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}