{"id":996,"date":"2003-07-09T21:55:22","date_gmt":"2003-07-10T05:55:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ogre.nu\/wp\/?p=996"},"modified":"2005-08-27T20:17:35","modified_gmt":"2005-08-28T04:17:35","slug":"tartans-in-spaaace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=996","title":{"rendered":"tartans in spaaace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name=\"105781292298031840\" href=\"http:\/\/kenmacleod.blogspot.com\/\">Ken MacLeod<\/a>, author of <i>The Stone Canal<\/i> &#038;c, has a blog.  (Thanks, <a href=\"http:\/\/tjic.com\/blog\/index_jul2003.php#09_Jul_2003_2\">Travis<\/a>!)<\/p>\n<p>But &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/kenmacleod.blogspot.com\/2003_06_01_kenmacleod_archive.html#95759343\">oh dear<\/a> .&nbsp;.&nbsp;. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p> It&#8217;s reminded me of the few times when I&#8217;ve felt the clammy suckers of capital&#8217;s covert-action tentacles on the back of my own neck.<br \/>\n<i>[&nbsp;.&nbsp;.&nbsp;. very big cut .&nbsp;.&nbsp;.&nbsp;]<\/i><br \/>\nAnd that&#8217;s one reason why I&#8217;ll carry the SSP&#8217;s or even the CP&#8217;s red flag, even though I don&#8217;t agree with everything they stand for.  It&#8217;s to keep the clammy suckers off my skin. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> Of the three tentacles cited here, two belonged to the US Army and the CIA.  Does someone as bright as Ken really suppose that a capitalist-free state would not have such organs?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ken MacLeod, author of The Stone Canal &#038;c, has a blog. (Thanks, Travis!) But &#8212; oh dear .&nbsp;.&nbsp;. It&#8217;s reminded me of the few times when I&#8217;ve felt the clammy suckers of capital&#8217;s covert-action tentacles on the back of my &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=996\">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":[20,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogdom","category-futures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/996","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=996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/996\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}