{"id":2421,"date":"2006-05-01T09:26:00","date_gmt":"2006-05-01T13:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles-wp\/?p=2421"},"modified":"2006-05-01T09:26:00","modified_gmt":"2006-05-01T13:26:00","slug":"prance-on-ye-merrie-foole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2006\/05\/01\/09\/26\/prance-on-ye-merrie-foole\/","title":{"rendered":"Prance On Ye Merrie Foole"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just as absolute monarchs of old had their <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jester\">court jesters<\/a>, with deliberate comic idioms as a mock reflection of the King&#8217;s, so today we have the <a href=\"http:\/\/youtube.com\/watch?v=lcIRXur61II\">prancing<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/youtube.com\/watch?v=HN0INDOkFuo\">Stephen<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/youtube.com\/watch?v=rJvar7BKwvQ\">Colbert<\/a>. Also as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymotion.com\/sensemilia\/video\/143459\">one big download<\/a>. Apparently the YouTube videos got yanked, but it&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/video.google.com\/videoplay?docid=-4973617448770513925\">on Google Video<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As Late Capitalism increasingly  resembles the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ancien_regime\">Ancien Rgime<\/a>, everything old is new again. It&#8217;s possibly correlated with the fact that <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nigel_Roder\">England recently appointed its first official Jester<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/uk_news\/england\/3545218.stm\">Nigel Roder<\/a>) since 1649 (ante <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Charles_I_of_England\">Regicide<\/a>). Let&#8217;s just hope Colbert avoids the fate of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Archibald_Armstrong\">Jester Archibald Armstrong<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just as absolute monarchs of old had their court jesters, with deliberate comic idioms as a mock reflection of the King&#8217;s, so today we have the prancing Stephen Colbert. Also as one big download.&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2421\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}