{"id":7617,"date":"2012-01-01T16:44:17","date_gmt":"2012-01-01T15:44:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=7617"},"modified":"2012-01-01T16:44:17","modified_gmt":"2012-01-01T15:44:17","slug":"its-a-new-year-so-lets-be-cheerful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=7617","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s a new year &#8211; so let&#8217;s be cheerful"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8220;So we face challenges, but we have a growing capacity to respond. For the average inhabitant of Britain, or Europe, or the planet, there has never been a better time to be alive than today. And, like as not, that statement will be true again tomorrow, and the next day \u2013 and the next.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is the conclusion of a thoughtful article in today&#8217;s &#8220;Observer&#8221; newspaper by Charles Kenny, a senior fellow at the Centre for Global Development.<\/p>\n<p>You can read his piece <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/commentisfree\/2012\/jan\/01\/charles-kenny-reasons-to-be-cheerful-2012\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;So we face challenges, but we have a growing capacity to respond. For the average inhabitant of Britain, or Europe, or the planet, there has never been a better time to be alive than today. And, like as not, that statement will be true again tomorrow, and the next day \u2013 and the next.&#8221; This [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7617"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7625,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7617\/revisions\/7625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}