{"id":70386,"date":"2018-12-07T14:56:02","date_gmt":"2018-12-07T13:56:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/12\/07\/chief-whips-desperate-pleading-breaks-spell-of-dark-arts-john-crace\/"},"modified":"2018-12-07T14:56:02","modified_gmt":"2018-12-07T13:56:02","slug":"chief-whips-desperate-pleading-breaks-spell-of-dark-arts-john-crace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=70386","title":{"rendered":"Chief whip&#039;s desperate pleading breaks spell of dark arts | John Crace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Also this week: bad reviews for Geoffrey Cox\u2019s syrupy baritone, and what to hope for in Richard Curtis\u2019s Four Weddings and a Funeral updateMy item in last week\u2019s diary about being mortified to be offered a seat on the tube generated an unexpectedly large response. The overwhelming majority of replies were sympathetic to my cause \u2013 getting old is bad enough as it is without everyone else joining in to point out your decrepitude. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2018\/dec\/07\/chief-whips-desperate-pleading-breaks-spell-of-dark-arts-john-crace\" target=\"_blank\">Chief whip&#039;s desperate pleading breaks spell of dark arts | John Crace<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Also this week: bad reviews for Geoffrey Cox\u2019s syrupy baritone, and what to hope for in Richard Curtis\u2019s Four Weddings and a Funeral updateMy item in last week\u2019s diary about being mortified to be offered a seat on the tube generated an unexpectedly large response. The overwhelming majority of replies [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70386\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}