{"id":631,"date":"2003-05-17T12:25:24","date_gmt":"2003-05-17T16:25:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=631"},"modified":"2003-05-17T12:25:24","modified_gmt":"2003-05-17T16:25:24","slug":"global-fame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=631","title":{"rendered":"Global Fame"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In case anyone has wandered over from the <em>Guardian<\/em>&#8216;s site, I thought I&#8217;d put on something to reward them: a quote from Ann Richards, the former governor of Texas, on the crippling effect of oil price rises on the state: <cite>&#8220;the price of gasoline has gotten so high that Texas women who want to run over their husbands have to carpool&#8221;<\/cite><\/p>\n\n<p>(from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/articles\/A57328-2003May14.html\">Molly Ivins<\/a> )<\/p>\n\n<p>The reason there might by a few fresh readers this morning, is that my column on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/wormseyeview\">Guardian&#8217;s web site<\/a> finally got going yesterday. Since I spent all yesterday afternoon at the funeral of a close friend&#8217;s sister, watching his mother faint from grief, over and over, I&#8217;m clean out of jokes of my own.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In case anyone has wandered over from the Guardian&#8216;s site, I thought I&#8217;d put on something to reward them: a quote from Ann Richards, the former governor of Texas, on the crippling effect of oil price rises on the state: &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=631\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=631\">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":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631"}],"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=631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}