{"id":30,"date":"2007-05-04T17:43:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-04T04:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rad.net.nz\/blog\/archives\/29"},"modified":"2007-05-04T17:43:00","modified_gmt":"2007-05-04T04:43:00","slug":"more-on-easter-trading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rad.net.nz\/radiescent\/2007\/05\/04\/more-on-easter-trading\/","title":{"rendered":"More on Easter Trading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>News today that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scoop.co.nz\/stories\/PO0705\/S00092.htm\">Caritas Welcomes Defeat Of Easter Trading Bill<\/a>. No surprises there, but their media release is curious for a couple of reasons. First is their criticism of the devolution of the law to local government. I would have thought that this was in line with the Catholic social teaching of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Subsidiarity#Catholic_social_teaching\">Subsidiarity<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Secondly there is no theological reasoning in the release, just that it is good for families.While I agree with that (on balance, after all Easter trading will be good for some families too), is there not some Catholic tradition to draw on, rather than repeat something that a trade union could just as easily say?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News today that Caritas Welcomes Defeat Of Easter Trading Bill. No surprises there, but their media release is curious for a couple of reasons. First is their criticism of the devolution of the law to local government. I would have thought that this was in line with the Catholic social teaching of Subsidiarity. Secondly there [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rad.net.nz\/radiescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rad.net.nz\/radiescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rad.net.nz\/radiescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rad.net.nz\/radiescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rad.net.nz\/radiescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rad.net.nz\/radiescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rad.net.nz\/radiescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rad.net.nz\/radiescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rad.net.nz\/radiescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}