{"id":51,"date":"2007-01-12T00:29:54","date_gmt":"2007-01-11T23:29:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mayonissen.com\/?p=51"},"modified":"2007-01-12T00:29:54","modified_gmt":"2007-01-11T23:29:54","slug":"the-globalized-world-in-the-21st-century","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mayonissen.com\/blog\/?p=51","title":{"rendered":"The Globalized World in the 21st Century"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How fitting was it that standing in line for the visa section of the Chinese embassy in London to get a visa for my (English) boss to go to visit the manufacturing company in eastern china that will make a product we are currently working on, I was reading &#8216;The World is Flat: The Globalized World in the Twenty-first Century&#8217; &#8211; a book on the changing complexities of globalisation, outsourcing, collaboration and the evolving relationships between east and west, developed and under-developed countries, consumer and worker, and companies and nationstates.<!--more--><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/World-Flat-Globalized-Twenty-first-Century\/dp\/0141022728\"><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"left\" src=\"http:\/\/ec2.images-amazon.com\/images\/P\/0141022728.02._AA240_SCLZZZZZZZ_V50401050_.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How fitting was it that standing in line for the visa section of the Chinese embassy in London to get a visa for my (English) boss to go to visit the manufacturing company in eastern china that will make a product we are currently working on, I was reading &#8216;The World is Flat: The Globalized [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,7,10,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mayonissen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mayonissen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mayonissen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mayonissen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mayonissen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mayonissen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mayonissen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mayonissen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mayonissen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}