{"id":836,"date":"2004-02-08T11:24:24","date_gmt":"2004-02-08T15:24:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=836"},"modified":"2004-02-08T11:24:24","modified_gmt":"2004-02-08T15:24:24","slug":"gloating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=836","title":{"rendered":"Gloating"},"content":{"rendered":"

Posterity shall ne’er survey
\nA nobler sight than this.
\nHere lies the grave of Castlereagh:
\nStop, traveller, and piss.<\/p>\n\n

Michael Lind, in the Nation<\/em>, has taken Byron’s exhortation to heart. Admittedly, the neocons had nothing in common with Lord Castlereagh, except a concern with foreign policy. But their hopes, their lies, their fears, are all buried now, and his measured, thorough drenching <\/a>is a magnificent work of political analysis and invective, worthy of Conor Cruise O’B<\/span>rien at his finest.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Posterity shall ne’er survey A nobler sight than this. Here lies the grave of Castlereagh: Stop, traveller, and piss. Michael Lind, in the Nation, has taken Byron’s exhortation to heart. Admittedly, the neocons had nothing in common with Lord Castlereagh, … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a> Continue reading →<\/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\/836"}],"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=836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}