{"id":4662,"date":"2011-01-21T13:27:25","date_gmt":"2011-01-21T12:27:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=4662"},"modified":"2011-01-21T13:30:41","modified_gmt":"2011-01-21T12:30:41","slug":"tony-blairs-a-journey-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=4662","title":{"rendered":"Tony Blair&#8217;s &#8220;A Journey&#8221; (2)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the day on which former Prime Minister Tony Blair makes a second appearance before the Chilcot inquiry into the invasion of Iraq, let me offer you a few more, brief quotes from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Journey-Tony-Blair\/dp\/009192555X\/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1295037122&amp;sr=1-1\">&#8220;A Journey&#8221; by Tony Blair<\/a> which I am currently reading.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;She ran the diary with a grip of iron and was quite prepared to squeeze the balls very hard indeed of anyone who interfered, but with a winning smile, of course.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Comment on Kate Garvey, page 20<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;During the course of the conversation I also discovered something I hadn&#8217;t been a hundred per cent sure of previously: he had clanking great balls.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Comment on Alistair Campbell, page 80<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;.. there were two points of connection: he was an outsider, and he had balls.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Comment on Rupert Murdoch, page 98<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the day on which former Prime Minister Tony Blair makes a second appearance before the Chilcot inquiry into the invasion of Iraq, let me offer you a few more, brief quotes from &#8220;A Journey&#8221; by Tony Blair which I am currently reading. &#8220;She ran the diary with a grip of iron and was quite [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-british-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4662"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4668,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4662\/revisions\/4668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}