{"id":1192,"date":"2006-03-28T11:48:00","date_gmt":"2006-03-28T11:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2006\/03\/28\/114354330379537847\/"},"modified":"2007-01-20T21:40:36","modified_gmt":"2007-01-20T21:40:36","slug":"rudely-built-straw-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2006\/03\/rudely-built-straw-men\/","title":{"rendered":"An army of crudely built straw men"},"content":{"rendered":"<dl>Our man Garry the Curious Hamster is on top form at the moment, with <a href=\"http:\/\/bsscworld.blogspot.com\/2006\/03\/politics-behind-windbreaker.html\">two<\/a> great <a href=\"http:\/\/bsscworld.blogspot.com\/2006\/03\/back-door-party.html\">posts<\/a> nicely demolishing Tony Blair&#8217;s &#8220;army of crudely built strawmen&#8221; and tedious &#8220;semantics, misrepresentations and downright nasty shits bullying anyone who disagrees into submission&#8221;. Good stuff. I&#8217;d doubtless do something similar on Jack Straw&#8217;s new Foreign Policy White Paper, <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/uk_politics\/4852550.stm\">launched today<\/a>, but sadly am far too busy in the real world&#8230;<\/dl>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our man Garry the Curious Hamster is on top form at the moment, with two great posts nicely demolishing Tony Blair&#8217;s &#8220;army of crudely built strawmen&#8221; and tedious &#8220;semantics, misrepresentations and downright nasty shits bullying anyone who disagrees into submission&#8221;. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2006\/03\/rudely-built-straw-men\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blair"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1192\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}