{"id":285,"date":"2014-12-31T17:36:36","date_gmt":"2014-12-31T16:36:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paradise-in-portugal.com\/blog\/?p=285"},"modified":"2014-12-31T17:42:05","modified_gmt":"2014-12-31T16:42:05","slug":"good-news-good-news-and-a-happy-and-prosperous-new-year-to-all-my-readers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paradise-in-portugal.com\/blog\/?p=285","title":{"rendered":"Good News! Good News! And a Happy and prosperous New Year to all my readers!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_308\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.paradise-in-portugal.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/The-Week-Socrates.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-308\" class=\"size-full wp-image-308\" src=\"http:\/\/www.paradise-in-portugal.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/The-Week-Socrates.jpg\" alt=\"The Week on Socrates\" width=\"500\" height=\"297\" srcset=\"https:\/\/paradise-in-portugal.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/The-Week-Socrates.jpg 500w, https:\/\/paradise-in-portugal.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/The-Week-Socrates-300x178.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-308\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Week on Socrates<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I don&#8217;t enjoy crowing &#8211; but I am so fed up of living in a state where corruption on a truly massive scale is simply taken for granted, something that is so normal as to rarely warrant a mention in everyday life, that I am overjoyed to bring you the news that our last Prime Minister is now awaiting trial in Evora Prison on charges of corruption, money laundering and tax evasion.<\/p>\n<p>The article above is from <a title=\"The Week\" href=\"http:\/\/subscription.theweek.co.uk\/overseas-subscriptions\/?ppcad=true&amp;gclid=CLPF25PN8MICFcrLtAod5z8AjA\" target=\"_blank\">The Week<\/a>, (a newspaper that I endorse as being bias-free, enjoyable to read, interesting and informative, and a subscriber to which I have been ever since its inception), and it pretty much sums it up &#8211; apart from some lovely intercepted phone call quotes along the lines of, &#8220;I&#8217;m far too big a fish for them to catch &#8211; they wont have the balls to try to get me&#8221;. This is the man that until a few years ago was the leader of our country.<\/p>\n<p>Following on from the latest bank failure where it was just the same, all buddies &#8220;loaning&#8221; each other cash that wasn&#8217;t theirs and truly believing that if they had all their own wealth in their family members&#8217; names they could never get caught, it is a welcome piece of good news when a courageous judge goes for the very highest. We await the fall-out and hope against hope that it is the start of a new story for this beautiful land.<\/p>\n<p>Another piece of good news &#8211; apart from the awards that we&#8217;ve been given this year by Tripadvisor that I&#8217;ve mentioned before &#8211; is last week&#8217;s article in The Telegraph where <a title=\"The Telegraph\" href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/travel\/destinations\/europe\/portugal\/11250668\/The-top-5-activity-holidays-in-Portugal.html\" target=\"_blank\">the Quinta is chosen to be one of the top 5 Activity Holidays in Portugal<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Happy New Year to you all and I hope we see more than our fair share of you this coming year!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t enjoy crowing &#8211; but I am so fed up of living in a state where corruption on a truly massive scale is simply taken for granted, something that is so normal as to rarely warrant a mention in everyday life, that I am overjoyed to bring you the news that our last Prime [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paradise-in-portugal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paradise-in-portugal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paradise-in-portugal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paradise-in-portugal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paradise-in-portugal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=285"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/paradise-in-portugal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":310,"href":"https:\/\/paradise-in-portugal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285\/revisions\/310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paradise-in-portugal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paradise-in-portugal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paradise-in-portugal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}