{"id":1143,"date":"2003-11-22T20:11:00","date_gmt":"2003-11-23T04:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ogre.nu\/wp\/?p=1143"},"modified":"2011-08-19T13:20:31","modified_gmt":"2011-08-19T21:20:31","slug":"a-fleeting-allusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=1143","title":{"rendered":"a fleeting allusion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Northcote Parkinson wrote (&#8220;Parkinson&#8217;s Second Law&#8221;): <\/p>\n<blockquote><p> In 1957 Mr John Applebey remarked that those responsible for the [British] public accounts seem to confuse themselves as well as everyone else. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> Presumably the creators of <i>Yes Minister<\/i>, and thus of Sir Humphrey Appleby who speaks in riddles, had read this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Northcote Parkinson wrote (&#8220;Parkinson&#8217;s Second Law&#8221;): In 1957 Mr John Applebey remarked that those responsible for the [British] public accounts seem to confuse themselves as well as everyone else. Presumably the creators of Yes Minister, and thus of Sir Humphrey &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=1143\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cinema","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1143"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2962,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1143\/revisions\/2962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}