{"id":937,"date":"2011-08-12T01:33:21","date_gmt":"2011-08-12T05:33:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/?p=937"},"modified":"2011-08-17T07:42:14","modified_gmt":"2011-08-17T11:42:14","slug":"standard-and-poor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/?p=937","title":{"rendered":"Standard And Poor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/standardandpoor\/standardandpoor.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/standardandpoor\/standardandpoor550w.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"755\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After years of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/national\/2011\/08\/09\/2011-08-09_standard__poorly_performing_is_what_these_2_agencies_really_are.html\" target=\"_blank\">sucking up to Wall Street<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailyhome.com\/pages\/full_story\/push?article-Can+you+believe+Standard+-+Poor-s%20&amp;id=14990622\" target=\"_blank\">giving out AAA ratings as if they were Cracker Jack prizes<\/a> &#8212; becoming an accomplice in the United States&#8217; economic meltdown &#8212; Standard &amp; Poor&#8217;s suddenly turns around and <a href=\"http:\/\/swampland.time.com\/2011\/08\/06\/sp-downgrades-itself\/\" target=\"_blank\">knocks an &#8220;A&#8221; off the United States&#8217; AAA debt rating<\/a> after the recent debt ceiling pro wrestling match on Capitol Hill. Who&#8217;da thunk it?<\/p>\n<p>Am I the only one here who thinks that outfit should change its name to Substandard &amp; Piss-Poor?<\/p>\n<p><strong>11&#215;17 medium-res <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/standardandpoor\/standardandpoor.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">color .jpg image,<\/a><\/strong> 688kb.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After years of sucking up to Wall Street and giving out AAA ratings as if they were Cracker Jack prizes &#8212; becoming an accomplice in the United States&#8217; economic meltdown &#8212; Standard &amp; Poor&#8217;s suddenly turns around and knocks an &#8220;A&#8221; off the United States&#8217; AAA debt rating after the recent debt ceiling pro wrestling [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,7,132],"tags":[369,365,370],"class_list":["post-937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy","category-elections","category-party-animals","tag-debt","tag-debt-ceiling","tag-standard-poors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=937"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":943,"href":"https:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937\/revisions\/943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}