{"id":9436,"date":"2012-09-14T21:58:10","date_gmt":"2012-09-14T20:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=9436"},"modified":"2012-09-14T22:00:38","modified_gmt":"2012-09-14T21:00:38","slug":"a-brilliant-critique-of-the-tea-party-or-the-american-taliban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=9436","title":{"rendered":"A brilliant critique of the Tea Party or the American Taliban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been watching &#8220;The Newsroom&#8221;, a new series written by Aaron Sorkin for HBO, screened in Britain on Sky Atlantic. It&#8217;s not as good as &#8220;The West Wing&#8221; which Sorkin also created, but it has some great moments. I did <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=8945\">a posting<\/a> about one of those moments which opened the first episode. Now I want to share with you another biting piece from episode 10, the last in this first season.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yGAvwSp86hY\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been watching &#8220;The Newsroom&#8221;, a new series written by Aaron Sorkin for HBO, screened in Britain on Sky Atlantic. It&#8217;s not as good as &#8220;The West Wing&#8221; which Sorkin also created, but it has some great moments. I did a posting about one of those moments which opened the first episode. Now I want [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9436","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=9436"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9439,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9436\/revisions\/9439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}