{"id":152,"date":"2006-01-09T23:48:04","date_gmt":"2006-01-10T04:48:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/63.247.138.3\/~drweevil\/?p=152"},"modified":"2007-09-03T18:25:50","modified_gmt":"2007-09-03T22:25:50","slug":"tragic-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/?p=152","title":{"rendered":"Tragic Anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From today&#8217;s (I mean the 9th) entry in <em>The Oxford Companion to the Year: An exploration of calendar customs and time-reckoning<\/em>, by  Bonnie Blackburn and Leofranc Holford-Strevens:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>On this day in 1799 an income tax of two shillings in the pound was first introduced in Great Britain to finance the war against Napoleon; modern readers may better understand the rate as 10 per cent. The tax was a wartime expedient, and became permanent only in the later nineteenth century; at that date one still spoke of &#8216;the income tax&#8217;, in contrast to the modern &#8216;income tax&#8217;, constructed without the article as if were a force of nature.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From today&#8217;s (I mean the 9th) entry in The Oxford Companion to the Year: An exploration of calendar customs and time-reckoning, by Bonnie Blackburn and Leofranc Holford-Strevens: On this day in 1799 an income tax of two shillings in the pound was first introduced in Great Britain to finance the war against Napoleon; modern readers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}