{"id":1322,"date":"2005-10-31T11:39:14","date_gmt":"2005-10-31T15:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1322"},"modified":"2005-10-31T11:39:14","modified_gmt":"2005-10-31T15:39:14","slug":"mr-kurtz-goes-to-washington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1322","title":{"rendered":"Mr Kurtz goes to Washington"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Is it old age, or just encroaching sanity that means where once I would have dissolved in wet-farting indignation, this morning, I just laughed, happy and helpless, when I read <a href=\"http:\/\/nationalreview.com\/hanson\/hanson200510280728.asp\">Victor Davis Hansen&#8217;s<\/a> prescription for the Bush administration: <span class=\"sane\">&#8220;The key to Iraq is enfeebling those around it who are weakening the country &mdash; namely Syria and Iran. The <span class=\"caps\">U.S. <\/span>should be calling for democratic reform in both countries &mdash; constantly, without interruption, <strong>and in the same idealistic fashion<\/strong> as we appeal to the Iraqis.<\/span> This is an appeal that cries out for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/helmintholog\/archives\/001577.html\">illustration<\/a> but I won&#8217;t link to the actual photographs.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is it old age, or just encroaching sanity that means where once I would have dissolved in wet-farting indignation, this morning, I just laughed, happy and helpless, when I read Victor Davis Hansen&#8217;s prescription for the Bush administration: &#8220;The key &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1322\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1322\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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\/1322"}],"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=1322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1322\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}