{"id":37412,"date":"2019-01-30T01:00:28","date_gmt":"2019-01-30T06:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=37412"},"modified":"2019-01-01T12:38:31","modified_gmt":"2019-01-01T17:38:31","slug":"qotd-political-memoirs-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2019\/01\/30\/qotd-political-memoirs-2\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Political memoirs"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>We\u2019re told not to judge books by their covers, but faced with these two it\u2019s hard not to. Harman\u2019s is one of those thick, expensive tomes which, understandably, politicians write when they\u2019ve had enough earache and, unbelievably, publishers keep buying for vast sums, despite the fact that a fortnight after publication you can pick them up cheaper than an adult colouring book in a remainder bin. The old saw that \u2018all political careers end in failure\u2019 might now better be: \u2018All political careers end with a book on Amazon going for less than the price of the postage.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Julie Burchill, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/2017\/02\/harriet-harman-and-jess-phillips-poles-apart-in-the-sisterhood\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Harriet Harman and Jess Phillips: poles apart in the sisterhood&#8221;, <em>The Spectator<\/em><\/a>, 2017-02-25.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019re told not to judge books by their covers, but faced with these two it\u2019s hard not to. Harman\u2019s is one of those thick, expensive tomes which, understandably, politicians write when they\u2019ve had enough earache and, unbelievably, publishers keep buying for vast sums, despite the fact that a fortnight after publication you can pick them [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"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":[32,57,53,41],"tags":[833,86,156],"class_list":["post-37412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-humour","category-politics","category-quotations","tag-amazon","tag-criticism","tag-fail"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-9Jq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37412","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=37412"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37414,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37412\/revisions\/37414"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}