{"id":493,"date":"2002-12-31T12:48:07","date_gmt":"2002-12-31T16:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=493"},"modified":"2002-12-31T12:48:07","modified_gmt":"2002-12-31T16:48:07","slug":"high-class-schnidery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=493","title":{"rendered":"high-class Schnidery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s nice to see a liberal who can manage real, informed contempt, as opposed to the smug and ignorant sort typified by <a href=\"http:\/\/news.independent.co.uk\/people\/story.jsp?story=364482\" title=\"You can take the boy out of Balliol ...\">Richard Dawkins <\/a>calling Bush &#8220;An illiterate buffoon.&#8221;<\/p>\n\nHere&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/dec0204.html#122802506pm\" title=\"Talking Points Memo\">Joshua Michael Marshall<\/a>: <blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/dec0204.html#122802506pm\">&#8220;It&#8217;s one thing to be a hawk and have your hawkishness rooted in a cold-eyed realism and a willingness to use force, quite another to have it stem from emotional impulses  arising from the fact that you grew up as a pencil neck and constantly had your lunch money stolen from you by the cool kids.\nI can&#8217;t give you the precise lunch money victimization statistics for various civilian political appointees at the Pentagon, for staffers in the Office of the Vice- President, Richard Perle or even Frank Gaffney. But I suspect most folks who are familiar with these guys will know what I&#8217;m getting at.&#8221; <\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s nice to see a liberal who can manage real, informed contempt, as opposed to the smug and ignorant sort typified by Richard Dawkins calling Bush &#8220;An illiterate buffoon.&#8221; Here&#8217;s Joshua Michael Marshall: &#8220;It&#8217;s one thing to be a hawk &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=493\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=493\">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":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493"}],"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=493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}