{"id":567,"date":"2007-06-19T01:42:35","date_gmt":"2007-06-19T01:42:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=567"},"modified":"2007-06-19T01:42:35","modified_gmt":"2007-06-19T01:42:35","slug":"smirking-chimp-heh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=567","title":{"rendered":"Smirking Chimp!  Heh."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Link o&#8217; the day: Smirking Chimp&#8217;s account of <a href=http:\/\/www.smirkingchimp.com\/thread\/8128>how we got into this mess in Iraq, fact by fact.<\/a>  (Where &#8220;we&#8221; equals the US, the West, or the world, depending on your level of identification.) Via <a href=http:\/\/www.bobharris.com\/content\/view\/1407\/1\/>Bob Harris<\/a>.<br \/>\nIn comments to yesterdays post, Leon the God gets unnerved, Mr Salmond endorses his earlier recommendation, and T reveals that there was a BBC TV movie of The Woman in Black.  A bit of IMDB clicking later and I see that this version earned universally good reviews and was written by Nigel Kneale (who, I also discovered, died last year).  Any of the film buffs in the audience seen this, then?<br \/>\nOur new kettle died tonight, less than a month after purchase.  I know we&#8217;ll be able to get a replacement, but heck, it is a sad thing to be boiling water on the stovetop for a cup of tea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Link o&#8217; the day: Smirking Chimp&#8217;s account of how we got into this mess in Iraq, fact by fact. (Where &#8220;we&#8221; equals the US, the West, or the world, depending on your level of identification.) Via Bob Harris. In comments to yesterdays post, Leon the God gets unnerved, Mr Salmond endorses his earlier recommendation, and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=567\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Smirking Chimp!  Heh.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8D9ZE-99","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}