{"id":366,"date":"2008-02-08T14:05:24","date_gmt":"2008-02-08T18:05:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=366"},"modified":"2008-02-08T14:05:24","modified_gmt":"2008-02-08T18:05:24","slug":"i-bet-they-kill-this-par","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=366","title":{"rendered":"I bet they kill this par"},"content":{"rendered":"

But when you open tomorrow’s Guardian<\/em> there ought to be an analysis on the news pages that starts like this:<\/p>\n\n

The Archbishop of Canterbury, a man whose prose is as luxuriant as his beard, might not have anything in common with the heroes of American tough-guy novelist Elmore Leonard beyond a tendency to interrupt his sentences with “Jesus”. But it was an Elmore Leonard hero he called to mind in his latest speech: the one in Tishimongo Blues, who earns his living by diving from high platforms into tiny pools of water; except that when the Archbishop emerged from his latest feat of public intellectual gymnastics, he was dripping all over with shit.
\nHow could one speech have united against him the liberals, the conservatives, most Muslims, most Christians, all secularists, all the political parties; everyone who only read the headlines, and almost everyone who read beyond the headlines the lecture that he gave? Could any common idiot have written it?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n

This is why I no longer write news stories.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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