{"id":227,"date":"2009-02-17T21:28:31","date_gmt":"2009-02-17T21:28:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/?p=227"},"modified":"2009-03-19T13:37:46","modified_gmt":"2009-03-19T13:37:46","slug":"cant-be-long-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/2009\/02\/17\/cant-be-long-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Can&#8217;t Be Long Now?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Having trawled through old e-mails clearing up my inbox I came across the lyrics to a couple of songs. These were <cite>Tramp the Dirt Down<\/cite> and <cite>The Day That Thatcher Dies<\/cite>.<\/p>\n<p>At 83 it can&#8217;t be long now surely? One of the days where I smiled most was reading that her dementia was so bad that she thinks her racist piece of shit husband was still alive. Having to be re-told every day that the person you love most in the world is dead is the best punishment she could possibly receive. It is the only small comfort in the knowledge that she is still depriving the rest of the human race of the oxygen she continues to use.<\/p>\n<p>Costello said it best<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nBecause there\u2019s one thing I know, I\u2019d like to live<br \/>\nLong enough to savour<br \/>\nThat\u2019s when they finally put you in the ground<br \/>\nI\u2019ll stand on your grave and tramp the dirt down\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having trawled through old e-mails clearing up my inbox I came across the lyrics to a couple of songs. These were Tramp the Dirt Down and The Day That Thatcher Dies. At 83 it can&#8217;t be long now surely? One of the days where I smiled most was reading that her dementia was so bad [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,51],"tags":[176,177,178,179],"class_list":["post-227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-rant","tag-maggie-thatcher","tag-milk-snatcher","tag-the-day-that-thatcher-dies","tag-tramp-the-dirt-down"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":282,"href":"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227\/revisions\/282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}