{"id":3668,"date":"2011-08-05T14:40:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-05T14:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/2011\/08\/05\/love-makes-the-world-go-round-or-so-ive-been-told-and-i-think-i-believe-it\/"},"modified":"2011-08-05T14:40:00","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T14:40:00","slug":"love-makes-the-world-go-round-or-so-ive-been-told-and-i-think-i-believe-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/2011\/08\/05\/love-makes-the-world-go-round-or-so-ive-been-told-and-i-think-i-believe-it\/","title":{"rendered":"love makes the world go ’round, or so I’ve been told, and I think I believe it"},"content":{"rendered":"

Essential Reading: Iceland’s Ongoing Revolution<\/a><\/b>. <\/p>\n

“What happened next was extraordinary. The belief that citizens had to pay for the mistakes of a financial monopoly, that an entire nation must be taxed to pay off private debts was shattered, transforming the relationship between citizens and their political institutions and eventually driving Iceland\u2019s leaders to the side of their constituents. The Head of State, Olafur Ragnar Grimsson, refused to ratify the law that would have made Iceland\u2019s citizens responsible for its bankers\u2019 debts, and accepted calls for a referendum. […]<\/p>\n

To write the new constitution, the people of Iceland elected twenty-five citizens from among 522 adults not belonging to any political party but recommended by at least thirty citizens. This document was not the work of a handful of politicians, but was written on the internet. The constituent\u2019s meetings are streamed on-line, and citizens can send their comments and suggestions, witnessing the document as it takes shape. The constitution that eventually emerges from this participatory democratic process will be submitted to parliament for approval after the next elections.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Essential Reading: Iceland’s Ongoing Revolution. “What happened next was extraordinary. The belief that citizens had to pay for the mistakes of a financial monopoly, that an entire nation must be taxed to pay off private debts was shattered, transforming the relationship between citizens and their political institutions and eventually driving Iceland\u2019s leaders to the side … Continue reading “love makes the world go ’round, or so I’ve been told, and I think I believe it”<\/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":[1],"tags":[716,106],"class_list":["post-3668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-amazing","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3668\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}