{"id":498,"date":"2008-09-12T13:18:30","date_gmt":"2008-09-12T13:18:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/astraea.net\/blog\/?p=498"},"modified":"2008-09-12T13:18:30","modified_gmt":"2008-09-12T13:18:30","slug":"get-the-right-perspective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/get-the-right-perspective\/","title":{"rendered":"Get the right perspective."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, the media leads with the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/business\/7611782.stm\">headline<\/a> that China&#8217;s economy slowed during the olympics because businesses were closed to help clear the atmosphere.<\/p>\n<p>But its important to get the detail.\u00a0 The rate of growth remains high.\u00a0 Far beyond what western economies are experiencing.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>industrial output growth of 12.8% in August<\/li>\n<li>retail sales up at an annual rate of 23.2% in August<\/li>\n<li>and the economy grew at 10.1% for the second quarter of this year.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, the media leads with the headline that China&#8217;s economy slowed during the olympics because businesses were closed to help clear the atmosphere. But its important to get the detail.\u00a0 The rate of growth remains high.\u00a0 Far beyond what western economies are experiencing. industrial output growth of 12.8% in August retail sales up at an &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/get-the-right-perspective\/\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Get the right perspective.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[36,20,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-perspective","category-china","category-economy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4hwcd-82","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}