{"id":86825,"date":"2019-04-02T04:00:06","date_gmt":"2019-04-02T02:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/04\/02\/heroin-and-me-our-political-sketch-writer-on-giving-up-drugs\/"},"modified":"2019-04-02T04:00:06","modified_gmt":"2019-04-02T02:00:06","slug":"heroin-and-me-our-political-sketch-writer-on-giving-up-drugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=86825","title":{"rendered":"Heroin and me: our political sketch writer on giving up drugs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The best decision the Guardian\u2019s parliamentary sketch writer, John Crace, ever made was to give up heroin. Having lost his 20s to addiction, Crace swore he would not touch the drug again. After 32 clean years, he explains how quitting is a lifelong process. Also today: Alex Hern on Mark Zuckerberg and internet regulationThe Guardian\u2019s parliamentary sketch writer, John Crace, is at the top of his game. His waspish commentary on the daily chaos in parliament has won him fans across the political spectrum. It was Crace who coined phrases such as \u2018the Maybot\u2019 and \u2018failing Grayling\u2019. But his career almost didn\u2019t happen. Throughout the 1980s, Crace had a heroin addiction that nearly killed him. He talks to Anushka Asthana about how he had to hit rock bottom before deciding to come off \u2013 and stay off \u2013 the drug. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/audio\/2019\/apr\/02\/giving-up-heroin-a-lifetimes-work-podcast\" target=\"_blank\">Heroin and me: our political sketch writer on giving up drugs<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The best decision the Guardian\u2019s parliamentary sketch writer, John Crace, ever made was to give up heroin. Having lost his 20s to addiction, Crace swore he would not touch the drug again. After 32 clean years, he explains how quitting is a lifelong process. Also today: Alex Hern on Mark [&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-86825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86825","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=86825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86825\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=86825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=86825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}