{"id":143940,"date":"2025-05-30T11:11:08","date_gmt":"2025-05-30T11:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/143940\/"},"modified":"2025-05-30T11:11:08","modified_gmt":"2025-05-30T11:11:08","slug":"france-banning-outdoor-smoking-is-a-stunning-example-of-how-politicans-fail-to-understand-real-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/143940\/","title":{"rendered":"France banning outdoor smoking is a stunning example of how politicans fail to understand real people"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Or to put it like Bernie Sanders, if you wilfully ignore the issues that matter to most people \u2013 jobs, healthcare, immigration, crime \u2013 and instead devote your time and energy to banning things that the working class quite like (I\u2019m guessing that most smokers are less well off than the bureaucrat class), well, you\u2019re not going to endear yourself to the mass of voters, are you?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Or to put it like Bernie Sanders, if you wilfully ignore the issues that matter to most people&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":143941,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5309],"tags":[14223,34,2000,299,36,285,22468],"class_list":{"0":"post-143940","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-ban","9":"tag-emmanuel-macron","10":"tag-eu","11":"tag-europe","12":"tag-france","13":"tag-politics","14":"tag-smoking"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114596484794096995","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143940\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}