{"id":1963,"date":"2009-02-23T22:19:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-23T22:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/2009\/02\/23\/clapping-for-what"},"modified":"2009-02-23T22:19:00","modified_gmt":"2009-02-23T22:19:00","slug":"clapping-for-what","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=1963","title":{"rendered":"Clapping for what?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>The New York Stock Exchange closed today &#8212; more than 250 points lower than when it started. I lost even more money out of my retirement account.<\/p>\n<p>And when the bell sounded to end trading, some Wall Street execs &#8212; and maybe a celebrity or two &#8212; stood there on the podium and applauded. My question is this: What on Earth were they cheering?<\/p>\n<p>OK, it&#8217;s a pro forma event. They aren&#8217;t really happy with the way the day&#8217;s trading goes when it takes a dive like it did today. They do it for the cameras. Well, the cameras captured the moment, all right. And this viewer is getting angrier with each day&#8217;s loss of money &#8212; chiefly mine.<\/p>\n<p>I see nothing worth applauding, folks.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Stock Exchange closed today &#8212; more than 250 points lower than when it started. I lost even more money out of my retirement account. And when the bell sounded to end trading, some Wall Street execs &#8212; and maybe a celebrity or two &#8212; stood there on the podium and applauded. My &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=1963\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Clapping for what?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1963\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}