{"id":348,"date":"2010-04-21T21:13:33","date_gmt":"2010-04-21T21:13:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/2010\/04\/21\/on_nutters_1\/"},"modified":"2010-04-21T21:13:33","modified_gmt":"2010-04-21T21:13:33","slug":"on_nutters_1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/2010\/04\/21\/on_nutters_1\/","title":{"rendered":"On nutters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oh dear sweet mother of God.<\/p>\n<p>\nMy eyes turned green and my legs turned to MatriGel with jealousy when Jenny interviewed Billy Bragg (we are not worthy, we are not worthy, we are not worthy) a couple of weeks ago. But I read her writeup of the Q&amp;A in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/news\/2010\/100419\/full\/news.2010.191.html\">Nature<\/a> with interest nonetheless.<\/p>\n<p>\nThen I went back and saw that the comments had turned into a bitching ground over Bragg&#8217;s politics, faux-man-for-all-seasoning, whatever. This was a great shame because Bragg said some interesting things, and it&#8217;d be nice to talk about some of what he&#8217;d said, especially as he said more than there was room for in that article. So I commented as much.<\/p>\n<p>\nBig mistake.<\/p>\n<p>\nWould anyone care to take on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/news\/2010\/100419\/full\/news.2010.191.html#comment-id-10180\">last two<\/a> (at the time of writing) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/news\/2010\/100419\/full\/news.2010.191.html#comment-id-10183\">commenters<\/a>? Coz my brane hertz.<\/p>\n<p>\n\/toddles off to listen to <em>England, Half English<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh dear sweet mother of God. My eyes turned green and my legs turned to MatriGel with jealousy when Jenny interviewed Billy Bragg (we are not worthy, we are not worthy, we are not worthy) a couple of weeks ago. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/2010\/04\/21\/on_nutters_1\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,31,32,37,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-politics","category-public-engagement","category-rants","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}