{"id":2631,"date":"2010-01-20T23:28:46","date_gmt":"2010-01-20T23:28:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=2631"},"modified":"2010-01-20T23:42:09","modified_gmt":"2010-01-20T23:42:09","slug":"a-bit-of-local-colour-anyone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=2631","title":{"rendered":"A bit of local colour, anyone?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So according to Sir David Omand, Tony Blair&#8217;s former security co-ordinator, the fabricated claim that Iraq could launch tactical weapons within 45-minutes was (and I quote) a &#8220;<a title=\"BBC news\" href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/uk_politics\/8471091.stm\" target=\"_blank\">bit of local colour<\/a>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p>This is now, presumably, government authorisation that we may all use statements that might be less-grounded in the world of facts, for &#8216;local colour&#8217; purposes?<\/p>\n<p>So I&#8217;m off to update my CV with the news that I have twenty-seven PhDs that include ones in: Thermonuclear Dynamics, Applied <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">Lying<\/span> Politics and Wheeltapping And Shunting.<\/p>\n<p>Marvellous. Well done the British Government for showing the public what a magnificent bunch of lying bastards you are.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So according to Sir David Omand, Tony Blair&#8217;s former security co-ordinator, the fabricated claim that Iraq could launch tactical weapons within 45-minutes was (and I<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stuff","two-columns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2631\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}