{"id":188432,"date":"2010-09-28T18:58:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-28T23:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/09\/28\/the-white-house-as-a-britcom\/"},"modified":"2010-09-28T18:58:00","modified_gmt":"2010-09-28T23:58:00","slug":"the-white-house-as-a-britcom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/09\/28\/the-white-house-as-a-britcom\/","title":{"rendered":"The White House as a Britcom*"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am watching this, and I can just imagine a nearly identical conversation involving<br \/>Rahm Emanuel and Barack Obama as is going on between Sr. Humphreys and Minister Jim Hacker.<\/p>\n<p>H\/t <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eschatonblog.com\/2010\/09\/monday-night_28.html\">Atrios<\/a> for the video, but the insight is mine.<br \/><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">We call it diplomacy, Minister.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><object height=\"400\" width=\"500\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/pIXH3-A8zMI?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/pIXH3-A8zMI?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" height=\"400\" width=\"500\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p><sup>*<\/sup><span style=\"font-variant: small-caps;font-size:78%;\" > <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Brit<\/span>ish <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Com<\/span>edy.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am watching this, and I can just imagine a nearly identical conversation involvingRahm Emanuel and Barack Obama as is going on between Sr. Humphreys and Minister Jim Hacker. H\/t Atrios for the video, but the insight is mine. We call it diplomacy, Minister. * British Comedy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1010,984,978,1027,1173],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bureaucracy","category-europe","category-politics","category-video","category-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188432"}],"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=188432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188432\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}