{"id":617,"date":"2007-02-18T08:08:58","date_gmt":"2007-02-18T08:08:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/idiolect.truth.posiweb.net\/notes\/?p=617"},"modified":"2007-02-18T08:08:58","modified_gmt":"2007-02-18T08:08:58","slug":"quote-188","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/2007\/02\/18\/quote-188\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote #188"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><em><br \/>\nIn Britain people are often told to &#8216;stop talking about politics, it only causes arguments&#8217;. But you can only have that attitude if politics doesn&#8217;t appear to affect your life. If the house was burning down, and one group was urging everyone to &#8216;run through the flames&#8217; while someone else shouted that the only chance was to jump, even my Mum wouldn&#8217;t say &#8216;Stop talking about fires, it will only cause a row. Now let&#8217;s have a nice cup of tea and burn to death.&#8217;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p align=\"right\">Mark Steel, &#8216;Reasons to be Cheerful&#8217; (2001)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Britain people are often told to &#8216;stop talking about politics, it only causes arguments&#8217;. But you can only have that attitude if politics doesn&#8217;t appear to affect your life. If the house was burning down, and one group was urging everyone to &#8216;run through the flames&#8217; while someone else shouted that the only chance [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotes"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5KQtW-9X","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}