{"id":17459,"date":"2017-11-01T20:01:11","date_gmt":"2017-11-01T10:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=17459"},"modified":"2024-06-29T11:06:57","modified_gmt":"2024-06-29T01:06:57","slug":"why-does-catalonia-want-to-quit-spain-its-the-economy-stupid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=17459","title":{"rendered":"Why does Catalonia want to quit Spain? It\u2019s the economy!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/CataloniaCapital.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-17460\" src=\"http:\/\/tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/CataloniaCapital-300x164.jpg\" alt=\"Catalonia Capital\" width=\"770\" height=\"421\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nSome very interesting data on aggregations of people and optimal community sizes&#8230;<br \/>\nWhy, and why now? It\u2019s easy to get lost in the mire of local explanations and recent historical factors, and Spain has those in abundance. They matter, and they may explain why Spain is the most confrontational of the struggles between separatist, nationalist and supra-national ambitions on this Continent. But the core forces lie much deeper and are in essence much simpler.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.veteranstoday.com\/2017\/10\/31\/why-does-catalonia-want-to-quit-spain-its-the-economy-stupid\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">https:\/\/www.veteranstoday.com\/2017\/10\/31\/why-does-catalonia-want-to-quit-spain-its-the-economy-stupid\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some very interesting data on aggregations of people and optimal community sizes&#8230; Why, and why now? It\u2019s easy to get lost in the mire of local explanations and recent historical factors, and Spain has those in abundance. They matter, and they may explain why Spain is the most confrontational of the struggles between separatist, nationalist &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=17459\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Why does Catalonia want to quit Spain? It\u2019s the economy!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17459"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51735,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17459\/revisions\/51735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}