{"id":245,"date":"2009-02-28T17:52:10","date_gmt":"2009-02-28T17:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/?p=245"},"modified":"2017-09-19T10:33:38","modified_gmt":"2017-09-19T10:33:38","slug":"amusing-tale-of-protest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/2009\/02\/28\/amusing-tale-of-protest\/","title":{"rendered":"Amusing Tale of Protest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Steel has written an amusing entry on his blog about taking his kid to an anti-war march and the point where you notice a change in your life.<\/p>\n<p>For some people Mark Steel went from being Double Plus Funny to Double Plus Unfunny overnight. Thankfully I don&#8217;t have anyone telling me what to think so can still have my own opinion about such matters.<\/p>\n<p>Poignant and funny at the same time.<\/p>\n<p><q>Oh for God&#8217;s sake, they&#8217;re not going to break down the embassy with balsa wood.<\/q> Then he added <q>Come on dad, let&#8217;s get to the gates.<\/q><\/p>\n<p><q>No I think it&#8217;s safer to stay here,<\/q> I advised.<\/p>\n<p><q>COME ON,<\/q> he insisted, and we shuffled through the squashed crowd to get nearer the front. <q>Why don&#8217;t we all invade the Israeli embassy?<\/q> he asked, and whoever was stood next to us answered <q>Because the Israeli embassy is better protected than Buckingham Palace.<\/q><\/p>\n<p><q>Well then let&#8217;s invade Buckingham Palace,<\/q> he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Steel has written an amusing entry on his blog about taking his kid to an anti-war march and the point where you notice a change in your life. For some people Mark Steel went from being Double Plus Funny to Double Plus Unfunny overnight. Thankfully I don&#8217;t have anyone telling me what to think [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,52,3],"tags":[199,198],"class_list":["post-245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funny","category-politics","category-random","tag-double-plus-funny","tag-mark-steel"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245","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=245"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3506,"href":"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245\/revisions\/3506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}