{"id":176720,"date":"2020-04-05T18:15:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-05T23:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/04\/05\/should-he-die-he-will-be-replaced-by-something-even-more-bizarrely-inexplicble\/"},"modified":"2020-04-05T18:15:00","modified_gmt":"2020-04-05T23:15:00","slug":"should-he-die-he-will-be-replaced-by-something-even-more-bizarrely-inexplicble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/04\/05\/should-he-die-he-will-be-replaced-by-something-even-more-bizarrely-inexplicble\/","title":{"rendered":"Should He Die, He Will Be Replaced by Something Even More Bizarrely Inexplicble"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2020\/apr\/05\/boris-johnson-admitted-to-hospital-with-coronavirus\">has been admitted to hospital for Covid-19 treatment<\/a>.<\/div>\n<p>It appears that his condition has worsened since announcing his testing positive 10 days ago:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/boris-johnson\">Boris Johnson<\/a> has been admitted to hospital due to coronavirus after suffering 10 days of symptoms including a high fever, bringing doubts about his capability to lead the response to the pandemic despite No 10 insisting it was purely precautionary. <\/p>\n<p>Johnson was taken to an unnamed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk\/london\">London<\/a> hospital on Sunday after days of persistent symptoms, during which time he has been self-isolating. Last week No 10 had denied the prime minister was more seriously ill than claimed. <\/p>\n<p>A Downing Street spokesperson said: \u201cOn the advice of his doctor, the prime minister has tonight been admitted to hospital for tests. This is a precautionary step, as the prime minister continues <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2020\/apr\/02\/boris-johnson-shows-covid-19-symptoms-still-and-may-stay-in-isolation\">to have persistent symptoms of coronavirus<\/a> 10 days after testing positive for the virus.\u201d The spokesperson said Johnson would stay in hospital \u201cas long as needed\u201d.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I do not know much about British politics, but what I <b>DO<\/b> know leads me to conclude that whoever might replace him would be even more of a sh%$ show than he is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been admitted to hospital for Covid-19 treatment. It appears that his condition has worsened since announcing his testing positive 10 days ago: Boris Johnson has been admitted to hospital due to coronavirus after suffering 10 days of symptoms including a high fever, bringing doubts about his capability to lead &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[482,440,572,374,570],"class_list":["post-176720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-breaking-news","tag-medical","tag-pandemic","tag-politics","tag-uk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176720"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176720\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}