{"id":578,"date":"2007-07-04T01:09:10","date_gmt":"2007-07-04T01:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=578"},"modified":"2007-07-04T01:09:10","modified_gmt":"2007-07-04T01:09:10","slug":"aw-reet-big-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=578","title":{"rendered":"aw reet big man?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=http:\/\/www.theregister.com\/2007\/07\/02\/terror_idiocy_outbreak\/>Over on El Reg<\/a>, a grumpy former UK bomb disposal operator points out that the vehicles used in the terror attacks in London and Glasgow were horribly amateurish and basically ineffectual. &#8220;Frankly, if this kind of thing is the only backlash the West experiences for Iraq, we&#8217;ve got off pretty much scot-free&#8230;&#8221;  (courtesy <a href=http:\/\/www.livejournal.com\/users\/scimon\/>scimon<\/a>)<br \/>\nI guess I find it hard to be impressed by this whole thing.  The tube attacks two years ago were horrible and worthy of attention, but international headlines over cars with gas cylinders in seems a bit overwrought to me.<br \/>\nOr as Warren Ellis <a href=http:\/\/twitter.com\/warrenellis\/statuses\/129399502>so witheringly put it<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Scottish terrorists trying to kill an airport with a Volvo. Bet they were from Govan.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8212;<br \/>\nToday I played ultimate, had Dim Sum, worked on Sekret Projects #1 and #2, read several academic articles, did a sudoku, sent some overdue emails, and felt bemused that yesterday&#8217;s entry written by the internet got more readers than the day before&#8217;s entry written by, er, me.  Maybe I should let the internet write more often?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over on El Reg, a grumpy former UK bomb disposal operator points out that the vehicles used in the terror attacks in London and Glasgow were horribly amateurish and basically ineffectual. &#8220;Frankly, if this kind of thing is the only backlash the West experiences for Iraq, we&#8217;ve got off pretty much scot-free&#8230;&#8221; (courtesy scimon) I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=578\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">aw reet big man?<\/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_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-578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8D9ZE-9k","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578","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=578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}