{"id":1079,"date":"2007-12-19T14:08:16","date_gmt":"2007-12-19T19:08:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/1079"},"modified":"2007-12-19T14:25:44","modified_gmt":"2007-12-19T19:25:44","slug":"the-superior-quality-of-british-snark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/1079","title":{"rendered":"The Superior Quality Of British Snark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/delong.typepad.com\/sdj\/2007\/12\/gideon-rachman.html\">Brad DeLong<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>200 proof snark, in the <em>Financial Times<\/em>. Gideon starts out by noting that &quot;diplomat&quot; Bolton rejects <em>pacta sunt servanda,<\/em> and goes on from there. The high point is Gideon&#8217;s noting that Bolton calls his book <em>Surrender Is Not an Option,<\/em> and observes that &quot;When it came to Vietnam, surrender was not an option for Bolton because he never got close enough to the enemy to make it feasible&#8230;&quot;\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The entire Gideon Rachman snark is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/0\/03c4773c-a6c3-11dc-b1f5-0000779fd2ac.html\">Here<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via Brad DeLong&#8230; 200 proof snark, in the Financial Times. Gideon starts out by noting that &quot;diplomat&quot; Bolton rejects pacta sunt servanda, and goes on from there. The high point is Gideon&#8217;s noting that Bolton calls his book Surrender Is Not an Option, and observes that &quot;When it came to Vietnam, surrender was not an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[19,6],"class_list":["post-1079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-the-jackass-chronicles","tag-the-right-wing-mindset"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1079\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}