{"id":283,"date":"2007-06-04T09:50:57","date_gmt":"2007-06-04T13:50:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=283"},"modified":"2007-06-04T09:50:57","modified_gmt":"2007-06-04T13:50:57","slug":"not-to-insult-the-female-genitalia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=283","title":{"rendered":"Not  to insult the female genitalia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>But, really, is there a better epithet for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tnr.com\/blog\/spine?pid=113174\">Martin Peretz<\/a> than &#8220;cunt&#8221;?<\/p>\n\n<p>This kind of thing looks just diseased from Europe, but it is worth remembering that it is treated as a perfectly respectable contribution to <del>left-wing<\/del> centrist journalism in the <span class=\"caps\">USA.  <\/span>[ <strong>No it&#8217;s not left-wing<\/strong> says <span class=\"caps\">PNH, <\/span>in comments].<\/p>\n\n<p>On a related topic, there is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/pages\/live\/articles\/columnists\/columnists.html?in_article_id=459662&amp;in_page_id=1772&amp;in_author_id=256\">news from Planet Melanie<\/a> in today&#8217;s <em>Mail:<\/em> <span class=\"loony\">The only people who have ever opposed a lawfully constituted Palestinian state are the Arabs.<\/span> Not many people know that.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But, really, is there a better epithet for Martin Peretz than &#8220;cunt&#8221;? This kind of thing looks just diseased from Europe, but it is worth remembering that it is treated as a perfectly respectable contribution to left-wing centrist journalism in &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=283\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=283\">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":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283"}],"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=283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}