{"id":3849,"date":"2003-04-09T17:07:30","date_gmt":"2003-04-09T16:07:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grayblog.co.uk\/?p=3849"},"modified":"2003-04-09T17:07:30","modified_gmt":"2003-04-09T16:07:30","slug":"whilst-rageh-zoiks-omaar-breathlessly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/2003\/04\/09\/whilst-rageh-zoiks-omaar-breathlessly\/","title":{"rendered":"Whilst Rageh &#8220;Zoiks!&#8221; Omaar breathlessly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Whilst Rageh &quot;Zoiks!&quot; Omaar breathlessly reported the destruction of one of the statues of Saddam in Baghdad on the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/2930871.stm\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Reporters' log: 9 April\">BBC reporters&#8217; log<\/a> page, Andrew Gilligan once again, took a different view. <\/p>\n<div class=\"quote\">I want to talk to you about my favourite Saddam statues, in anticipation they may not be here for much longer.<\/p>\n<p>One of my favourites is a moody looking Saddam on a tall plinth. And there are tiny little models of Mrs Thatcher, George Bush Senior and the President of France, Jacques Chirac cringing at his feet.<\/p>\n<p>This is a memorial to what the Saddam regime called the American occupation of Kuwait &#8211; the first Gulf War. Now I imagine that will probably come down pretty soon.<\/p>\n<p>Theres another one by the telephone exchange saying &quot;Saddam on the phone&quot;. They tend to be themed, these things.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I like his style &#8211; I see a good future for him in broadcasting.<br \/>\n(Credit for the Scooby Doo joke to Punt and Dennis).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whilst Rageh &quot;Zoiks!&quot; Omaar breathlessly reported the destruction of one of the statues of Saddam in Baghdad on the BBC reporters&#8217; log page, Andrew Gilligan once again, took a different view. I want to talk to you about my favourite Saddam statues, in anticipation they may not be here for much longer. One of my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-old-blogging"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3849\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}