{"id":2568,"date":"2008-08-28T17:45:53","date_gmt":"2008-08-28T17:45:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/?p=2568"},"modified":"2008-08-28T17:45:53","modified_gmt":"2008-08-28T17:45:53","slug":"how-to-hoist-a-tory-on-their-own-petard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/?p=2568","title":{"rendered":"How to hoist a Tory on their own petard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John Major did a beautiful job with very little help on &#8220;<a href = \"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/uk_politics\/202525.stm\">Back to Basics<\/a>&#8221; &#8211; with the call for &#8220;moral probity&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Now the Tories are calling for &#8220;dietary probity&#8221; &#8211; and Jane Merrick in the <i>Independent<\/i> suggests they might need to <a href = \"http:\/\/blogs.independent.co.uk\/openhouse\/2008\/08\/the-cuddly-cons.html#more\">ban the Eton Mess all over Westminster<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Major did a beautiful job with very little help on &#8220;Back to Basics&#8221; &#8211; with the call for &#8220;moral probity&#8221;. Now the Tories are calling for &#8220;dietary probity&#8221; &#8211; and Jane Merrick in the Independent suggests they might need to ban the Eton Mess all over Westminster.<\/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-2568","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\/2568","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=2568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2568\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}