{"id":85001,"date":"2009-12-16T08:21:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-16T13:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/the-second-iraq-oil-auction-of-2009-2009-12"},"modified":"2009-12-16T08:21:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-16T13:21:00","slug":"the-iraqi-oil-auction-was-like-a-high-stakes-american-idol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/85001","title":{"rendered":"The Iraqi Oil Auction Was Like A High-Stakes American Idol"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/the-second-iraq-oil-auction-of-2009-2009-12\/the-bidding-begins-way-more-intense-than-texting-in-your-vote-1\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"float_right\" src=\"http:\/\/static.businessinsider.com\/~~\/f?id=4b27e0490000000000a7c533\" border=\"0\" alt=\"oil auction 2\" \/><\/a>As the pseudonymous &#8220;Pepe Escobar&#8221; of Asia Times <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/china-and-russia-end-up-as-huge-winners-in-the-iraqi-oil-auction-2009-12\">pointed out<\/a>, the oil rights to the new Iraq were auctioned off at an <em>American Idol<\/em>-like televised gameshow.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve never been to <em>American Idol<\/em>, but this sounded awesome. Way more interesting and important.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately we found a few wire photos, and we can see what he means.<\/p>\n<p>Rather than watching singers perform warmed over classics, watching Americans, Chinese, Russians, and Norwegians battle over multi-billion dollar oil fields is seriously good TV.<\/p>\n<h2><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/the-second-iraq-oil-auction-of-2009-2009-12\/the-bidding-begins-way-more-intense-than-texting-in-your-vote-1\">Check out the show &gt;&gt;<\/a><\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/the-second-iraq-oil-auction-of-2009-2009-12#comments\">Join the conversation about this story &#187;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>See Also:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/china-and-russia-end-up-as-huge-winners-in-the-iraqi-oil-auction-2009-12\">China And Russia End Up As Huge Winners In The Iraqi Oil Auction<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/awesome-foreign-airports-2009-11\">10 Awesome Foreign Airports That Make Ours Look Awful<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheMoneyGame\/~4\/tiz8w6BpHtE\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the pseudonymous &#8220;Pepe Escobar&#8221; of Asia Times pointed out, the oil rights to the new Iraq were auctioned off at an American Idol-like televised gameshow. We&#8217;ve never been to American Idol, but this sounded awesome. Way more interesting and important. Fortunately we found a few wire photos, and we can see what he means. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85001\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}