{"id":837,"date":"2004-10-30T14:33:05","date_gmt":"2004-10-30T19:33:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/2004\/10\/30\/dead-men-left-on-the-guardian\/"},"modified":"2004-10-30T14:33:05","modified_gmt":"2004-10-30T19:33:05","slug":"dead-men-left-on-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/2004\/10\/30\/dead-men-left-on-the-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"<i>Dead Men Left<\/i> on The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nJames over at <cite>Dead Men Left<\/cite> has <a href=\"http:\/\/deadmenleft.blogspot.com\/2004\/10\/aaargh-guardian-why-dear-god-why.html\">the perfect description<\/a> of The Guardian&#8217;s attitude towards the US:\n<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"cite\"><p>\nI think they see Americans as something like the rest of us see spiders: fine when behaving themselves and sitting quietly in the corner, but bloody terrifying when zooming around unpredictably at high speed, with no easy option but to stand on a chair and scream. It&#8217;s not an unreasonable fear if either beast should arrive with guns, I suppose, but the best thing to do with the particular breed of Republican spider the Guardian has run foul of is to follow the traditional rememdy: trap them in a box with a piece of paper and throw them outside the front door; or, failing that, end the occupation of Iraq.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James over at Dead Men Left has the perfect description of The Guardian&#8217;s attitude towards the US: I think they see Americans as something like the rest of us see spiders: fine when behaving themselves and sitting quietly in the corner, but bloody terrifying when zooming around unpredictably at high speed, with no easy option [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[504],"class_list":["post-837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funny","tag-the-guardian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837","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=837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}