{"id":1763,"date":"2006-12-19T19:03:44","date_gmt":"2006-12-19T19:03:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/?p=1763"},"modified":"2006-12-20T11:51:41","modified_gmt":"2006-12-20T11:51:41","slug":"the-last-refuge-of-a-morally-bankrupt-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/?p=1763","title":{"rendered":"The last refuge of a morally bankrupt government&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; slam the &#8220;dole-bludgers&#8221; as though these &#8211; the poorest and most disadvantaged people in society &#8211; were the cause of its problems. I&#8217;ve a piece now over on <a href = \"http:\/\/commentisfree.guardian.co.uk\/natalie_bennett\/2006\/12\/jobseekers_are_not_just_a_numb.html\">Comment is Free<\/a> about the latest disgraceful Blairite comments. And yes they might have been written late at night when I was feeling rather sarcastic&#8230;<br \/>\nUPDATE: In the early hours of Wednesday morning there were some lovely comments &#8211; both suppporting my argument and telling some powerful tales: I&#8217;d recommend starting to read the comments at the bottom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; slam the &#8220;dole-bludgers&#8221; as though these &#8211; the poorest and most disadvantaged people in society &#8211; were the cause of its problems. I&#8217;ve a piece now over on Comment is Free about the latest disgraceful Blairite comments. And yes they might have been written late at night when I was feeling rather sarcastic&#8230; UPDATE: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","author-natalieben"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1763\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}