{"id":301,"date":"2004-11-11T14:19:22","date_gmt":"2004-11-11T21:19:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/torturedpotato.com\/cheeseblog\/?p=301"},"modified":"2004-11-11T14:19:22","modified_gmt":"2004-11-11T21:19:22","slug":"commentary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/torturedpotato.com\/cheeseblog\/?p=301","title":{"rendered":"Commentary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The rat bastard who keeps spamming my comments offered this wisdom today:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If one man offers you democracy and another offers you a bag of grain, at what stage of starvation will you prefer the grain to the vote?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s nicely put.  Now: off to New Wine and Chestnuts Day.  Pictures sure to follow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The rat bastard who keeps spamming my comments offered this wisdom today: &#8220;If one man offers you democracy and another offers you a bag of grain, at what stage of starvation will you prefer the grain to the vote?&#8221; It&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/torturedpotato.com\/cheeseblog\/?p=301\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/torturedpotato.com\/cheeseblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/torturedpotato.com\/cheeseblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/torturedpotato.com\/cheeseblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torturedpotato.com\/cheeseblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torturedpotato.com\/cheeseblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/torturedpotato.com\/cheeseblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/torturedpotato.com\/cheeseblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torturedpotato.com\/cheeseblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torturedpotato.com\/cheeseblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}