{"id":1434,"date":"2005-01-20T11:30:50","date_gmt":"2005-01-20T15:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1434"},"modified":"2005-01-20T11:30:50","modified_gmt":"2005-01-20T15:30:50","slug":"a-brilliant-propagandist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1434","title":{"rendered":"A brilliant propagandist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Of all the people I have discovered from blog reading, the most journalistically talented is <a href=\"http:\/\/billmon.org\/archives\/001650.html\">Billmon,<\/a> whoever the hell he is. It&#8217;s not so much that he is a good writer: there are lots of people out there who can write with angry terse eloquence, even if not enough do. But he is a great editor. He  understands the art of arranging fragments into a bigger story. The <em>Independent<\/em>  ought to hire him to edit their fancy pages.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Of all the people I have discovered from blog reading, the most journalistically talented is Billmon, whoever the hell he is. It&#8217;s not so much that he is a good writer: there are lots of people out there who can &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1434\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1434\">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":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1434"}],"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=1434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1434\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}