{"id":4870,"date":"2004-02-26T11:34:13","date_gmt":"2004-02-26T10:34:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grayblog.co.uk\/?p=4870"},"modified":"2004-02-26T11:34:13","modified_gmt":"2004-02-26T10:34:13","slug":"rant-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/2004\/02\/26\/rant-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Rant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I feel a rant coming on. But I can&#8217;t decide what winds me up most. So post some comments on any or all of the following topics, and if my rant juices are still flowing at the end of the day, I&#8217;ll let rip.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/entertainment\/film\/3488370.stm\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"BBC News\">Mel Gibson&#8217;s film, The Passion of The Christ<\/a>;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/uk_politics\/3488548.stm\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"BBC News again\">GCHQ, Katherine Gun, Clare Short, Kofi Annan and bugging<\/a>;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/uk_politics\/3488570.stm\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"and again\">Ann Winterton: a &quot;family values&quot; Tory<\/a>;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/programmes\/wtwtgod\/3518375.stm\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"yup, them again\">UK &quot;amongst most secular nations in the world&quot;<\/a>;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/world\/americas\/3518973.stm\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"you know who\">President Bush moves to outlaw gay marriage<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Meanwhile, and risking accusations of being a BBC addict (or victim, if you prefer), may I suggest that you take a break and listen to Jonathan Marcus&#8217;s documentary series <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/worldservice\/specials\/1020_ageofempire\/index.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"World Service\">Age of Empire<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I feel a rant coming on. But I can&#8217;t decide what winds me up most. So post some comments on any or all of the following topics, and if my rant juices are still flowing at the end of the day, I&#8217;ll let rip. Mel Gibson&#8217;s film, The Passion of The Christ; GCHQ, Katherine Gun, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4870","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=4870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4870\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}