{"id":327,"date":"2011-12-06T09:17:47","date_gmt":"2011-12-06T13:17:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/?p=327"},"modified":"2011-12-06T09:17:47","modified_gmt":"2011-12-06T13:17:47","slug":"tuesday-6-december-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2011\/12\/06\/tuesday-6-december-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday, 6 December 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #000099; font-family: Arial;\">08:17 &#8211;<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"> I see that S&#038;P has belatedly noticed that all 15 eurozone countries that don&#8217;t already have junk ratings should be downgraded, including Germany. The problem is, S&#038;P is under immense political pressure, and so will probably downgrade these countries by only one or two notches. The reality, of course, is that there&#8217;s not a country in the eurozone that should have a rating in the investment-grade range. Back on 25 November, I posted my suggestions for accurate ratings for the eurozone countries. We&#8217;ll see how close S&#038;P comes to reality when they finally get around to cutting these ratings.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">We have all the subassemblies ready to make up a new batch of chemistry kits, so it&#8217;s just a matter of getting them boxed up and ready to ship. I have a bunch of backorders to fill, and intend to ship all of those Friday.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">Work on the biology book continues. Right now, I&#8217;m working on a lab session about the root, stem, and leaf structures of seed plants, with another session about reproductive structures in the on-deck circle.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<hr style=\"width: 65%; height: 3px; font-family: Arial;\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>08:17 &#8211; I see that S&#038;P has belatedly noticed that all 15 eurozone countries that don&#8217;t already have junk ratings should be downgraded, including Germany. The problem is, S&#038;P is under immense political pressure, and so will probably downgrade these countries by only one or two notches. The reality, of course, is that there&#8217;s not a country in the eurozone that should have a rating in the investment-grade range. Back on 25 November, I posted my suggestions for accurate ratings for the eurozone countries.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2011\/12\/06\/tuesday-6-december-2011\/\">&nbsp;&raquo;&nbsp;Read more about: Tuesday, 6 December 2011 &nbsp;&raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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":[31,13,11,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-politics","category-science-kits","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}