{"id":752,"date":"2003-10-17T10:53:09","date_gmt":"2003-10-17T14:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=752"},"modified":"2003-10-17T10:53:09","modified_gmt":"2003-10-17T14:53:09","slug":"perish-the-thought-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=752","title":{"rendered":"Perish the Thought (1)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the questions asked of any journalist applying for a visa to the <span class=\"caps\">USA <\/span>is this: <span class=\"loony\">Have you ever been afflicted with a communicable disease of public health significance or a dangerous physical or mental disorder, or ever been a drug abuser or addict?<\/span>. The only answers offered are &#8220;YES&#8221; and &#8220;NO&#8221;, but every single journalist under fifty whom I have ever known would wish to reply, with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/1851450017\/026-6585693-2414835\">Nigel Molesworth<\/a>. &#8220;Perish the thort!&#8221;.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the questions asked of any journalist applying for a visa to the <span class=\"caps\">USA <\/span>is this: Have you ever been afflicted with a communicable disease of public health significance or a dangerous physical or mental disorder, or ever been &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=752\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=752\">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\/752"}],"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=752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}