{"id":558,"date":"2003-03-05T13:34:12","date_gmt":"2003-03-05T17:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=558"},"modified":"2003-03-05T13:34:12","modified_gmt":"2003-03-05T17:34:12","slug":"class-warfare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=558","title":{"rendered":"Class warfare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <em>Daily Mail<\/em> leads today with the news that the government has finally declared class warfare on the Middle classes: a delicious, blonde 18-year-old with three A-Level As, whose interests are world peace and nudism (oh all right, I made the last bit up) has been turned down for Bristol University because she went to a private school. Cue double-page spread of other photogenic young people who have failed to get into the university of their choice; cuel also the Wrath of Heffer. ( I won&#8217;t mention the fact that applying for Bristol when you might, on the face of it, get into Oxbridge, suggests you&#8217;re not going to benefit much from a university education.)<\/p>\n\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nThe <em>Guardian<\/em>, as often, has another angle. But you have to ask which article will do more to inflame the scornful anger of the middle classes. A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/g2\/story\/0,3604,907533,00.html\">reporter took a striking fireman<\/a> and his wife to the restaurant where Andy Gilchrist, the firemen&#8217;s union leader last month spent <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Daily Mail leads today with the news that the government has finally declared class warfare on the Middle classes: a delicious, blonde 18-year-old with three A-Level As, whose interests are world peace and nudism (oh all right, I made &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=558\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=558\">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":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558"}],"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=558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}