{"id":1850,"date":"2007-01-19T02:31:48","date_gmt":"2007-01-19T02:31:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/?p=1850"},"modified":"2007-01-19T02:31:48","modified_gmt":"2007-01-19T02:31:48","slug":"enjoy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/?p=1850","title":{"rendered":"Enjoy&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John Pilger <a href = \"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/commentisfree\/story\/0,,1994045,00.html\">gets stuck into<\/a> John Howard.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;the regression of this social democracy into a state of fabricated fear and xenophobia is an object lesson for all societies claiming to be free. In power for more than a decade, the Liberal prime minister, John Howard, comes from the outer reaches of Australia&#8217;s &#8220;neocons&#8221;&#8230;.Howard rejoices in his promotion of &#8220;Australian values&#8221; &#8211; a very Australian sycophancy to the sugared &#8220;values&#8221; of foreign power. The darling of a group of white supremacists who buzz around the Murdoch-dominated press and radio talk-back hosts, the prime minister has used acolytes to attack the &#8220;black armband view of history&#8221;, as if the mass killing and resistance of indigenous Australians did not happen.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Pilger gets stuck into John Howard. &#8230;the regression of this social democracy into a state of fabricated fear and xenophobia is an object lesson for all societies claiming to be free. In power for more than a decade, the Liberal prime minister, John Howard, comes from the outer reaches of Australia&#8217;s &#8220;neocons&#8221;&#8230;.Howard rejoices in [&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-1850","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\/1850","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=1850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1850\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}