{"id":1993,"date":"2010-03-05T09:25:33","date_gmt":"2010-03-05T14:25:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/2010\/03\/05\/a-failed-womble\/"},"modified":"2010-03-05T09:25:33","modified_gmt":"2010-03-05T14:25:33","slug":"a-failed-womble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/2010\/03\/05\/a-failed-womble\/","title":{"rendered":"a failed Womble"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nThat Rod Liddle bid for the editorship of <cite>The Independent<\/cite> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/rodliddle\/5813808\/the-guardian-loathsome-and-loathful.thtml\">in full<\/a>:\n<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nBy God, The Guardian is a loathsome newspaper; a local north London morning daily for Stalinist metro libtards, perpetually arrogant, snobbish, self-righteous, humourless, dull, relentlessly middle class, cowardly and cheap.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\nYou can see the sole reason Liddle was refused this position was that the powers that be were afraid of his blunt honesty, not because he&#8217;s just another rightwing asshole who thinks he&#8217;s entitled to lead a leftleaning paper, or because he has a habit of posting racist comments on Millwall supporter sites (under pseudonym, natch). Title courtesy of Charlie Brooker, who <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/charltonbrooker\/status\/6376567303\">described Liddle<\/a> a while back as &#8220;a failed Womble who&#8217;s just been shaken awake in a shop doorway&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That Rod Liddle bid for the editorship of The Independent in full: By God, The Guardian is a loathsome newspaper; a local north London morning daily for Stalinist metro libtards, perpetually arrogant, snobbish, self-righteous, humourless, dull, relentlessly middle class, cowardly and cheap. You can see the sole reason Liddle was refused this position was that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[745,585,90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-numpties","category-wingnuts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1993\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}