{"id":247,"date":"2007-01-30T23:34:15","date_gmt":"2007-01-30T23:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/2007\/01\/30\/ItsTheLeprechauns.aspx"},"modified":"2007-01-30T23:34:15","modified_gmt":"2007-01-30T23:34:15","slug":"its-the-leprechauns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/2007\/01\/30\/its-the-leprechauns\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s the leprechauns!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Standard &amp; Poor&#8217;s report is out and Ireland is now ranked as the world&#8217;s wealthiest country&#8230; that is once you remove the miniature countries (or is it massive&nbsp;banks?) like Bermuda and the small oil-based economies like Norway (and you thought the Scandinavians made all their money from cell phones).&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pictures.little.org\/photos\/126539797-L.gif\"><br \/><em>&#8220;<font size=\"1\">Pink hearts, yellow moons &amp; tax breaks for high-tech corporations!&#8221;<\/font><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Turns out Ireland is actually ranked sixth.&nbsp; Interestingly enough the US has dropped out of the top 10.<\/p>\n<p>For more information you can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unison.ie\/irish_independent\/stories.php3?ca=9&amp;si=1760206&amp;issue_id=15151\">read the article in the Irish Independent<\/a> (but if you don&#8217;t want sign up, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/main.jhtml?xml=\/news\/2007\/01\/22\/wireland22.xml\">visit the telegraph instead<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Standard &amp; Poor&#8217;s report is out and Ireland is now ranked as the world&#8217;s wealthiest country&#8230; that is once you remove the miniature countries (or is it massive&nbsp;banks?) like Bermuda and the small oil-based economies like Norway (and you thought the Scandinavians made all their money from cell phones).&nbsp; &#8220;Pink hearts, yellow moons &amp; tax [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[106],"class_list":["post-247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-idlenews","tag-idlenews"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}