{"id":529,"date":"2003-02-05T14:20:31","date_gmt":"2003-02-05T18:20:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=529"},"modified":"2003-02-05T14:20:31","modified_gmt":"2003-02-05T18:20:31","slug":"psychopathic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=529","title":{"rendered":"Psychopathic"},"content":{"rendered":"The <em>Daily Mail<\/em> is running a long and savoury hatchet job on George W. Bush this week, based on a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0066213703\/qid%3D1041544229\/sr%3D2-1\/ref%3Dsr_2_1\/102-4695444-9111303\">biography <\/a>published last year in America.<br \/>\nToday&#8217;s episode has a brisk rehearsal of his business career: failing quite lucratively as an oilman, and then making his fortune out of public funds as part-owner of a football team. It also has the following story:<blockquote>&#8220;As a child, George Bush was unruly. With his friends, one of his less wholesome activities was catching live frogs, stuffing fireworks in their mouths, and then hurling the animals like grenades so that they exploded in mid-air.&#8221;<\/blockquote>\nAnd this is the man for whom British soldiers will be dying as garrison troops in Iraq for decades to come.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Daily Mail is running a long and savoury hatchet job on George W. Bush this week, based on a biography published last year in America. Today&#8217;s episode has a brisk rehearsal of his business career: failing quite lucratively as &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=529\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=529\">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":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529"}],"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=529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}