{"id":1260,"date":"2004-03-17T09:39:52","date_gmt":"2004-03-17T17:39:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ogre.nu\/wp\/?p=1260"},"modified":"2004-11-14T19:25:05","modified_gmt":"2004-11-15T03:25:05","slug":"there-must-be-a-standard-metaphor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=1260","title":{"rendered":"there must be a standard metaphor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sundayherald.com\/40592\">We locked you up in jail for 25 years and you were innocent all along? That&#8217;ll be &pound;80,000 please<\/a> (cited by Joshua Burton)<\/p>\n<p>One might be reminded of Terry Gilliam&#8217;s <i>Brazil<\/i>, in reverse: there, the man interrogated by mistake got a refund of the service charge.<\/p>\n<p>Having got the initial howl of outrage off our chest, it may occur to us that the charge is against compensation received by some such victims; but wouldn&#8217;t it have been figured into the settlements?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We locked you up in jail for 25 years and you were innocent all along? That&#8217;ll be &pound;80,000 please (cited by Joshua Burton) One might be reminded of Terry Gilliam&#8217;s Brazil, in reverse: there, the man interrogated by mistake got &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=1260\">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":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1260","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=1260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1260\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}