{"id":22313,"date":"2014-02-08T11:14:36","date_gmt":"2014-02-08T16:14:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=22313"},"modified":"2014-02-08T11:14:36","modified_gmt":"2014-02-08T16:14:36","slug":"qotd-the-defence-ministry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2014\/02\/08\/qotd-the-defence-ministry\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: The defence ministry"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The problem of the Ministry of Defence is that in peace time the three armed forces have no one on whom to vent their warlike instincts except the cabinet or each other.<\/p>\n<p>Jonathan Lynn, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jonathanlynn.com\/tv\/yes_minister_series\/yes_minister_episode_quotes.htm\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Yes Minister Series: Quotes from the dialogue&#8221;, <em>JonathanLynn.com<\/em><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The problem of the Ministry of Defence is that in peace time the three armed forces have no one on whom to vent their warlike instincts except the cabinet or each other. Jonathan Lynn, &#8220;Yes Minister Series: Quotes from the dialogue&#8221;, JonathanLynn.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,57,5,41],"tags":[145,31,509,30],"class_list":["post-22313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bureaucracy","category-humour","category-military","category-quotations","tag-airforce","tag-army","tag-civilservice","tag-navy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-5NT","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22313"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22314,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22313\/revisions\/22314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}