{"id":48819,"date":"2016-02-18T18:47:45","date_gmt":"2016-02-18T18:47:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=48819"},"modified":"2016-02-18T18:48:26","modified_gmt":"2016-02-18T18:48:26","slug":"serpent-bites-own-tail-painfully-in-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=48819","title":{"rendered":"Serpent bites own tail painfully in Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[ by <strong>Charles Cameron<\/strong> &#8212; a minor post &#8212; OTOH, Shakespeare had it worse ]<br \/>\n.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m recording this as another example of the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=45823\">ouroboros<\/a><\/strong> form in contemporary geopolitics.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Ukraine?src=hash\">#Ukraine<\/a> busts a prosecutor who tried to pay a $10k bribe for job in anti-corruption bureau <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/cALDTIPpz3\">https:\/\/t.co\/cALDTIPpz3<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/aZfE8Q5EZK\">pic.twitter.com\/aZfE8Q5EZK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Christopher Miller (@ChristopherJM) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChristopherJM\/status\/700009327734743041\">February 17, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Shakespeare<\/strong>&#8216;s riposte:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>How sharper than a serpent&#8217;s tooth it is<br \/>\nTo have a thankless child!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But that&#8217;s a response to the serpent that eats its own tail, not to the global issue of bribery &#038; corruption.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ by Charles Cameron &#8212; a minor post &#8212; OTOH, Shakespeare had it worse ] . I&#8217;m recording this as another example of the ouroboros form in contemporary geopolitics. #Ukraine busts a prosecutor who tried to pay a $10k bribe for job in anti-corruption bureau https:\/\/t.co\/cALDTIPpz3 pic.twitter.com\/aZfE8Q5EZK &mdash; Christopher Miller (@ChristopherJM) February 17, 2016 Shakespeare&#8216;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[526,1041,859,1095,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-charles-cameron","category-corruption","category-form","category-shakespeare","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48819"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48842,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48819\/revisions\/48842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}