{"id":15698,"date":"2023-10-20T13:06:08","date_gmt":"2023-10-20T12:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/business-meeting\/"},"modified":"2023-10-20T13:06:08","modified_gmt":"2023-10-20T12:06:08","slug":"business-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/business-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"Business Meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-15697\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/af0578fb9c8a1e1f83358bb59d3dc13b.jpg\" alt=\"by Martin Gollan\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Business Meeting<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<h6><em><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">October 2023<\/span><\/em><\/h6>\n<p><em>by Edward Mackinnon<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The blood-red carpet&#8217;s been rolled out again<br \/>for the salesman with formidable arms<br \/>and a mouth like the barrel of a gun<br \/>who knows only too well the source of all terror<br \/>in the depths of his atrophied heart<\/p>\n<p>His government will wait a hundred years<br \/>before getting to the bottom of the latest blast<br \/>but it&#8217;s losing patience with two million outcasts<br \/>who aren&#8217;t fleeing fast enough from the white fire<br \/>of his demanding clients, the chosen ones<\/p>\n<p>He exudes omnipotence, has aircraft carriers<br \/>on standby and other powerful weapons, informers<br \/>giving reassurance to the doubtful world<\/p>\n<p>but nevertheless he can&#8217;t help worrying<br \/>whether he&#8217;s striking the right pose, not suffering<br \/>collateral damage to his unimpeachable name<\/p>\n<p>and whether there might be a chink in his armour<br \/>through which could pass the winning light<br \/>of the bereaved fighters for unflinching truth<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Business Meeting October 2023 by Edward Mackinnon The blood-red carpet&#8217;s been rolled out againfor the salesman with formidable armsand a mouth like the barrel of a gunwho&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":564,"featured_media":15697,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1660],"tags":[2845,2846,2862],"class_list":["post-15698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry-2","tag-gaza","tag-israel","tag-war-crimes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/564"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15698\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}