{"id":446,"date":"2002-10-26T13:25:18","date_gmt":"2002-10-26T17:25:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=446"},"modified":"2002-10-26T13:25:18","modified_gmt":"2002-10-26T17:25:18","slug":"some-sort-of-justice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=446","title":{"rendered":"Some sort of justice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&mdash; though distressingly prosaic &mdash; was served on me yesterday. I had just published a press column warning poor Rowan Williams that he would soon be savaged by the pack when someone came round from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/religion\/tv_radio\/sunday\/index.shtml\" title=\"The Wireless\">the Sunday Programme<\/a> to interview me on Careyballs.<br \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more--><br \/>\nAt once I discovered myself behaving like a typical interviewee: equivocating, pompous, and treacherous. I could hear every twinge of sincerity in the voice of my interlocutor, and recognised them at once from my own practice. So how could I trust a word he said? I knew already that I couldn&#8217;t trust a word of mine.<br \/>\n<p>\nIn the end, as I drove him to the station, I mentioned that I am in the middle of writing an Analysis programme. That way, we were both on the same side. I hope; and drove home reflecting on one of my favourite bits of Rochester.\n\n<blockquote>For wits are treated just like common whores<br \/>\nFirst they&#8217;re enjoyed, and then kicked out of doors. <br \/><br \/>\nThe pleasure past, a threatening doubt remains, <br \/><br \/>\nand frights th&#8217;enjoyer with succeeding pains.<br \/>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&mdash; though distressingly prosaic &mdash; was served on me yesterday. I had just published a press column warning poor Rowan Williams that he would soon be savaged by the pack when someone came round from the Sunday Programme to interview &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=446\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=446\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446"}],"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=446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}