{"id":1619,"date":"2007-09-04T20:45:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-04T20:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/?p=1619"},"modified":"2007-09-04T20:45:00","modified_gmt":"2007-09-04T20:45:00","slug":"sometimes-i-want-to-pinch-christopher-hitchens-cheek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/news\/sometimes-i-want-to-pinch-christopher-hitchens-cheek\/","title":{"rendered":"Sometimes I want to pinch Christopher Hitchens&#8217; cheek"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Because he writes stuff like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2173112\/nav\/tap3\/\" target=\"_blank\">this<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Next time you hear some particularly moralizing speech, set your watch. You won&#8217;t have to wait long before the man who made it is found, crouched awkwardly yet ecstatically while the cistern drips and the roar of the flush maddens him like wine.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Bloody brilliant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because he writes stuff like this: Next time you hear some particularly moralizing speech, set your watch. You won&#8217;t have to wait long before the man who made it is found, crouched awkwardly yet ecstatically while the cistern drips and the roar of the flush maddens him like wine. Bloody brilliant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[18,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comedy","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1jWWl-q7","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1619\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}