{"id":1445,"date":"2005-01-28T00:20:07","date_gmt":"2005-01-28T05:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2005\/01\/bigger_and_better\/"},"modified":"2005-01-28T00:20:07","modified_gmt":"2005-01-28T05:20:07","slug":"bigger_and_better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2005\/01\/bigger_and_better\/","title":{"rendered":"Bigger And Better"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another huge <a title=\"Procter Said to Reach a Deal to Buy Gillette in $55 Billion Accord\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2005\/01\/28\/business\/28deal.html?ei=5090&#038;en=8d5102111bbdcaf7&#038;ex=1264568400&#038;adxnnl=1&#038;partner=rssuserland&#038;adxnnlx=1106888641-00z02nxJM\/qvYw4OEDqQuA\">corporate merger<\/a>.<br \/>\nI sometimes wonder how long it will be before every commercial interest in America is owned by Wal-MartExxonMobilGeneralElectricRoyalDutch\/ShellGroupCitigroupMicrosoft<br \/>\nGeneralMotorsSiemensSonyAllianzIBMDellCocaColaMcDonaldsGlaxoSmithKline<br \/>\nHPBankofAmericaPfizerAlcoaWaltDisneyDuPontBoeing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2005\/01\/bigger_and_better\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Bigger And Better\"><p>Another huge corporate merger. I sometimes wonder how long it will be before every commercial interest in America is owned by Wal-MartExxonMobilGeneralElectricRoyalDutch\/ShellGroupCitigroupMicrosoft GeneralMotorsSiemensSonyAllianzIBMDellCocaColaMcDonaldsGlaxoSmithKline HPBankofAmericaPfizerAlcoaWaltDisneyDuPontBoeing.<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1445","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1445\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}