{"id":684,"date":"2011-10-19T17:14:02","date_gmt":"2011-10-19T16:14:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/?p=684"},"modified":"2011-10-19T17:14:02","modified_gmt":"2011-10-19T16:14:02","slug":"la-gauche-molle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/?p=684","title":{"rendered":"La gauche molle"},"content":{"rendered":"

‘La gauche molle’ is an expression I heard a lot of yesterday on europe1 French radio from Paris. I bridled up, thinking the political commentators were calling the French ‘left wing’ ‘feeble, soft, spineless’. The names of Fran\u00e7ois Hollande and S\u00e9gol\u00e8ne Royale were bandied around a lot. But a friend who lives in France told me she thinks this may be a way of saying ‘the moderate left’. I shall keep listening in, and if anyone out there can enlighten me….thank you in advance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

‘La gauche molle’ is an expression I heard a lot of yesterday on europe1 French radio from Paris. I bridled up, thinking the political commentators were calling the French ‘left wing’ ‘feeble, soft, spineless’. The names of Fran\u00e7ois Hollande and … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4yjly-b2","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=684"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":687,"href":"https:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684\/revisions\/687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}