{"id":375,"date":"2007-09-05T21:29:19","date_gmt":"2007-09-05T21:29:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/bologs\/vng\/orwell-mi5-and-mi6\/"},"modified":"2007-09-05T21:29:19","modified_gmt":"2007-09-05T21:29:19","slug":"orwell-mi5-and-mi6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/orwell-mi5-and-mi6\/","title":{"rendered":"Orwell, MI5 and MI6"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s second most significant piece of anti-news: <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/uk\/6976576.stm\" target=\"_new\">George Orwell was being investigated by MI5.<\/a> Of course he was! They all were. The biggest mystery is how it&#8217;s taken this long to come out in public. The most significant piece of anti-news is that MI5 thought he wasn&#8217;t a proper Communist&#8230;despite his <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/uk\/6976576.stm\" target=\"_new\">&#8220;bohemian dress&#8221;.<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Christ al-cocking-mighty we all knew that! He was a public opponent of Communism! Read 1984 if you have any doubts. He even gave MI6 a list of people who had Communist Sympathies! How the bloody, bastarding, fuck did MI5 not realise this ? It&#8217;s almost as if <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk\/SSknightM.htm\" target=\"_new\">MI5 were a bunch of hopelessly ineffective fascist sympathisers<\/a> or something.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s second most significant piece of anti-news: George Orwell was being investigated by MI5. Of course he was! They all were. The biggest mystery is how it&#8217;s taken this long to come out in public. The most significant piece of anti-news is that MI5 thought he wasn&#8217;t a proper Communist&#8230;despite his &#8220;bohemian dress&#8221;. Christ al-cocking-mighty [&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-375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375","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=375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}