{"id":3403,"date":"2011-12-16T15:31:36","date_gmt":"2011-12-16T20:31:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/2011\/12\/16\/if-they-give-him-an-enema-they-can-bury-him-in-a-shoebox\/"},"modified":"2011-12-16T15:31:36","modified_gmt":"2011-12-16T20:31:36","slug":"if-they-give-him-an-enema-they-can-bury-him-in-a-shoebox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/2011\/12\/16\/if-they-give-him-an-enema-they-can-bury-him-in-a-shoebox\/","title":{"rendered":"If they give him an enema they can bury him in a shoebox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nAs Christopher Hitchens himself once said about Jerry Falwell. Which is really all you need to say about Hitchens&#8217; death as well. I&#8217;ve been a bit disappointed about the response to the news of his death, far too respectful and admiring of him. He has always been a douchenozzle, a bully boy who was full of his own courage, unsupported by the facts. He was a leftist when everybody was a socialist, then turned rightwing contrarian when fashions changed and finally turning himself in a professional atheist for the American market. But at all times he remained an asshole.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIt&#8217;s just that this was easier to live with when his targets were a Henry Kissinger then when he used his talents to support the War on Iraq.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Christopher Hitchens himself once said about Jerry Falwell. Which is really all you need to say about Hitchens&#8217; death as well. I&#8217;ve been a bit disappointed about the response to the news of his death, far too respectful and admiring of him. He has always been a douchenozzle, a bully boy who was full [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[585],"tags":[1508],"class_list":["post-3403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-numpties","tag-christopher-hitchens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3403","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=3403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3403\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}