{"id":569,"date":"2003-03-15T15:15:36","date_gmt":"2003-03-15T19:15:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=569"},"modified":"2003-03-15T15:15:36","modified_gmt":"2003-03-15T19:15:36","slug":"might-as-well-giggle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=569","title":{"rendered":"might as well giggle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After she posted some <a href=\"http:\/\/derry.anejo.nu\/recs\/newsnight.html\">Paxman\/Portillo slash,<\/a> I asked <a href=\"http:\/\/nielsenhayden.com\/makinglight\/\"><span class=\"caps\">TNH<\/span><\/a> why no one wrote this kind of thing about American politicians. So she went off to find some. Mostly, she failed, but hers was a truly honourable failure, as this report shows<\/p>\n\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I&#8217;d like to know what possessed someone to write slash about <span class=\"caps\">A.J.P.<\/span> Taylor with Hugh Trevor-Roper, <span class=\"caps\">A.J.P.<\/span> Taylor with Kenneth Clark, and an S\/M scene involving Wittgenstein and Popper. Not to mention the one taking place in an alternate universe in which Bush, Blair, Chirac and Saddam are all new girls at a boarding school.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After she posted some Paxman\/Portillo slash, I asked <span class=\"caps\">TNH <\/span>why no one wrote this kind of thing about American politicians. So she went off to find some. Mostly, she failed, but hers was a truly honourable failure, as this report &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=569\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=569\">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":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569"}],"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=569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}