{"id":283,"date":"2006-05-13T12:05:55","date_gmt":"2006-05-13T20:05:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.smontagu.org\/blog\/?p=283"},"modified":"2006-08-01T23:26:11","modified_gmt":"2006-08-02T07:26:11","slug":"unintentional-reminiscences-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.smontagu.org\/blog\/?p=283","title":{"rendered":"Unintentional Reminiscences I"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Susan in The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Peter, just because some man in a red coat gives you a sword it doesn&#8217;t make you a hero!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Dennis in Monty Python and the Holy Grail:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony\u2026you can&#8217;t expect to wield supreme executive power just because some watery tart threw a sword at you\u2026I mean, if I went round saying I was an emperor just because some moistened bint had lobbed a scimitar at me, they&#8217;d put me away<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Susan in The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe: Peter, just because some man in a red coat gives you a sword it doesn&#8217;t make you a hero! Dennis in Monty Python and the Holy Grail: Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smontagu.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smontagu.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smontagu.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smontagu.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smontagu.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.smontagu.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smontagu.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smontagu.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smontagu.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}