{"id":1030,"date":"2002-09-14T09:43:34","date_gmt":"2002-09-14T13:43:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1030"},"modified":"2002-09-14T09:43:34","modified_gmt":"2002-09-14T13:43:34","slug":"a-new-phrase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1030","title":{"rendered":"a new phrase"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Who writes the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/comment\/story\/0,3604,791817,00.html\">Smallweed column <\/a>in the Guardian? It reads like Ian Aitken sometimes, sometimes like Paul Routledge. But this week contained one of the most perfect pieces of abuse that I have ever read.<\/p>\n\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nThe context is the important and useful distinction, which cuts across the familiar division into hawks and doves, between grown-ups and juveniles. There are gorwn-up opponents of the war, and those who think that there are only contemptible reasons for it.<\/p>\n\n<p>There are Grown-up hawks, like Tony Blair, and then there are the juveniles, like Michael Gove, on the <em>Times<\/em>:<\/p>\n\n<div style=\"font-family:serif;font-size:12px\">\n&#8220;The spectacle of this pipsqueak installing himself as the voice of morality, ahead of such people as Rowan Williams, is a matter for wonder and vomiting. I hope if Bush and Blair do go to war they will start by dropping Gove on Baghdad.&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/div>\n\n<p><b>A matter for wonder and vomiting!<\/b> Isn&#8217;t that wonderful?<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who writes the Smallweed column in the Guardian? It reads like Ian Aitken sometimes, sometimes like Paul Routledge. But this week contained one of the most perfect pieces of abuse that I have ever read. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1030\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}