{"id":1185,"date":"2007-12-07T07:14:42","date_gmt":"2007-12-07T11:14:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1185"},"modified":"2007-12-07T07:14:42","modified_gmt":"2007-12-07T11:14:42","slug":"truncated-brain-processes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1185","title":{"rendered":"Truncated brain processes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And you, too can be left looking like Cletus the slack-jawed yokel if you just read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/melaniephillips\/388926\/the-thousand-volt-farce.thtml\" title=\"And you thought 'Mad Mel' was a cruel joke\">this<\/a>. Part of me feels a twinge of shame for the <em>Spectator<\/em> that Alexander Chancellor edited.<\/p>\n\n<p>This is what might be called the nut graf:<\/p>\n\n<blockquote><p>Those who believe the poisonous fiction about the &#8216;neocon conspiracy&#8217; will once again be unable to grasp what is staring them in the face. Indeed, madness over Iraq is now broadening into madness over Iran. Those whose truncated brain processes tell them that the failure to discover weapons of mass destruction in Iraq proves that they never existed now claim that the Iranian threat is no more than a malevolently constructed fiction.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And you, too can be left looking like Cletus the slack-jawed yokel if you just read this. Part of me feels a twinge of shame for the Spectator that Alexander Chancellor edited. This is what might be called the nut &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1185\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1185\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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\/1185"}],"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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1185\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}