{"id":16,"date":"2013-07-07T21:48:59","date_gmt":"2013-07-07T21:48:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/bologs\/vng\/a-festival-of-odious-bastardry\/"},"modified":"2013-07-07T21:48:59","modified_gmt":"2013-07-07T21:48:59","slug":"a-festival-of-odious-bastardry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/a-festival-of-odious-bastardry\/","title":{"rendered":"A festival of odious bastardry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Watching a recent Question Time with <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mark_Steel\">Mark Steel<\/a>. Some observations:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mark Steel is still one of my favourite people on this planet.<\/li>\n<li>Party politics is a pathetic sideshow for the real politics that are going on behind the scenes and have been since the beginning &#8211; Question Time is full of the same arguments today as it was in 1979.<\/li>\n<li>The panelists have started looking way too young to me.<\/li>\n<li>The saliva all over the TV screen and the soreness of my throat have reminded me of why I stopped watching Question Time. The neighbours must think I really hate my wife.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watching a recent Question Time with Mark Steel. Some observations: Mark Steel is still one of my favourite people on this planet. Party politics is a pathetic sideshow for the real politics that are going on behind the scenes and have been since the beginning &#8211; Question Time is full of the same arguments today [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}