{"id":1776,"date":"2008-09-20T11:51:47","date_gmt":"2008-09-20T10:51:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1776"},"modified":"2008-09-20T15:48:10","modified_gmt":"2008-09-20T14:48:10","slug":"reversion-to-the-mean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1776","title":{"rendered":"Reversion to the mean"},"content":{"rendered":"\t<p>Austrian politics drift, farcically, to the right. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.karlsson.at\/Arkiv\/DunkeltSept08.htm#lyx\">Apparently<\/a> there is a coalition proposed between the Social Democrats and <a href=\"http:\/\/de.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/FP%C3%96\">the Freedom Party<\/a>, as the former neo-Nazis call themselves. This is the outfit that used to be run by J&ouml;rg Haider, against whose participation in government the EU announced sanctions; anyway, the party split, and he now has one of his own. The new party prefers to be described as &#8220;populist&#8221;, and as part of this they have proposed a tax policy which dserves to be more widely known. <span class=\"caps\">VAT<\/span> on foodstuffs is to be halved, with the exception of twelve designated luxuries. <a href=\"http:\/\/derstandard.at\/?url=\/?id=1220457738870\">Here are the foodstuffs<\/a>  which Austrian Fascists and socialists have united to agree are signs of wicked decadence:<\/p>\n\n\t<ul>\n\t\t<li>Caviare<\/li>\n\t\t<li>Langoustines<\/li>\n\t\t<li>P&acirc;t&eacute; de foie gras<\/li>\n\t\t<li>Lobster<\/li>\n\t\t<li>Saffron<\/li>\n\t\t<li>Truffles<\/li>\n\t\t<li>Quail&#8217;s eggs (but not quails)<\/li>\n\t\t<li>Snails<\/li>\n\t\t<li>Oysters<\/li>\n\t\t<li>Ostrich eggs<\/li>\n\t\t<li>Crab<\/li>\n\t\t<li>Prawns<\/li>\n\t<\/ul>\n\n\t<p>Oh brave new world!<\/p>\n\n ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\t<p>Austrian politics drift, farcically, to the right. Apparently there is a coalition proposed between the Social Democrats and the Freedom Party, as the former neo-Nazis call themselves. This is the outfit that used to be run by J&ouml;rg Haider, against &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1776\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n ","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1776"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1776"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1784,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1776\/revisions\/1784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}