{"id":1128,"date":"2008-09-17T06:02:53","date_gmt":"2008-09-17T10:02:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/morningseditionists.com\/msblog\/?p=1128"},"modified":"2008-09-17T06:02:53","modified_gmt":"2008-09-17T10:02:53","slug":"wednesday-open-thread-118","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/2008\/09\/17\/wednesday-open-thread-118\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday Open Thread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, <a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2008\/09\/16\/news\/companies\/AIG\/index.htm?cnn=yes\">the Fed is taking over AIG<\/a>.  It&#8217;s getting to the point where being a failed financial institution is almost as good as being a software company competing with Microsoft.  If you&#8217;re a good company that threatens MS, they buy you out.  If you&#8217;re a crappy company that threatens the status quo, the government (or some other branch of the &#8220;free market&#8221; buys you out.  <\/p>\n<p>Pretty cool.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, the Fed is taking over AIG. It&#8217;s getting to the point where being a failed financial institution is almost as good as being a software company competing with Microsoft. If you&#8217;re a good company that threatens MS, they buy you out. If you&#8217;re a crappy company that threatens the status quo, the government (or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1128\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}