{"id":1301,"date":"2009-04-23T13:00:54","date_gmt":"2009-04-23T17:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/?p=1301"},"modified":"2009-04-23T13:00:54","modified_gmt":"2009-04-23T17:00:54","slug":"summit-of-the-americas-much-ado-about-nothing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/2009\/04\/summit-of-the-americas-much-ado-about-nothing\/","title":{"rendered":"Summit of the Americas: Much Ado About Nothing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Searching for substance in the summit&#8217;s declaration is akin to looking for a polar bear in a snowstorm.<\/p>\n<p>Summits of the Americas traditionally have been vacuous, mind-numbing conventions of inter-American heads of state and their acolytes in which pompous, sermon-style pontifications and amorphous and anodyne declarations\u2014substance-free and coma-inducing\u2014are delivered to the press and whoever else has a lot of time on their hands.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/business.fiu.edu\/pdf\/PrintApril2009\/5th-Summit-of-the-Americas.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Read Latin Business Chronicle article by Jerry Haar.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Searching for substance in the summit&#8217;s declaration is akin to looking for a polar bear in a snowstorm. Summits of the Americas traditionally have been vacuous, mind-numbing conventions of inter-American heads of state and their acolytes in which pompous, sermon-style pontifications and amorphous and anodyne declarations\u2014substance-free and coma-inducing\u2014are delivered to the press and whoever else [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[9,10],"tags":[1288,1544,1838],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1301"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1301\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}