{"id":1610,"date":"2007-07-12T15:33:16","date_gmt":"2007-07-12T15:33:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2007\/07\/12\/as-swift-as-a-deer-the-size-of-a-dog-and-with-the-head-of-a-monkey\/"},"modified":"2007-07-12T15:40:05","modified_gmt":"2007-07-12T15:40:05","slug":"as-swift-as-a-deer-the-size-of-a-dog-and-with-the-head-of-a-monkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2007\/07\/as-swift-as-a-deer-the-size-of-a-dog-and-with-the-head-of-a-monkey\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;As swift as a deer, the size of a dog, and with the head of a monkey&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/world\/middle_east\/6295138.stm\">Best. Weapon. Ever.<\/a> I mean, not as good\/scary as &#8220;as swift as a fighter jet, the size of an elephant, and with the head of former Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett&#8221;, obviously, but still.<\/p>\n<p>Sadly, however, the spoilsports of the British army have decided to deny the rumours, proving once again that war is tedious:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;We can categorically state that we have not released man-eating badgers into the area.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Even so, we need more of this kind of story out of Iraq. I got tired of things blowing up out there some time around about March 21st 2003 (&#8220;Shock and Awe&#8221;? Shocking bore, more like) &#8211; strange man-eating chimera beasts would certainly get me interested again. For a bit, at any rate.<\/p>\n<p>(The <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Honey_badger\">honey badger<\/a>, by the way (for it is a plague of these little buggers that&#8217;s currently attacking Basra), is the perfect animal to represent our nutty Jihadi friends: they&#8217;re utterly vicious, serve no useful purpose, are rather scary up close but decidedly comical from a distance, and are just a wee bit stupid.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Best. Weapon. Ever. I mean, not as good\/scary as &#8220;as swift as a fighter jet, the size of an elephant, and with the head of former Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett&#8221;, obviously, but still. Sadly, however, the spoilsports of the British &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2007\/07\/as-swift-as-a-deer-the-size-of-a-dog-and-with-the-head-of-a-monkey\/\">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":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-war-against-terror"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1610","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=1610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1610\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}