{"id":282,"date":"2003-05-20T09:40:10","date_gmt":"2003-05-20T09:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/2003\/05\/the_best_democr\/"},"modified":"2003-05-20T09:40:10","modified_gmt":"2003-05-20T09:40:10","slug":"the_best_democr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/2003\/05\/the_best_democr\/","title":{"rendered":"The Best Democracy Money Can Buy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I got hold of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/1841197149\">this book<\/a> after hearing it&#8217;s author <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gregpalast.com\">Greg Palast<\/a> speaking on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/fivelive\/mayo\/index.shtml\">Simon Mayo programme<\/a> on Radio Five Live.<br \/>\nI suppose he&#8217;s a slightly more literary Michael Moore. The book is written in the same freewheeling style, but there&#8217;s just a little bit more depth.<br \/>\nSometimes he&#8217;s a little off the mark in my view, but most of the time he&#8217;s hitting pretty accurately. And he does at least have a slightly more accurate view of how Britain works, including it&#8217;s underside.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got hold of this book after hearing it&#8217;s author Greg Palast speaking on the Simon Mayo programme on Radio Five Live. I suppose he&#8217;s a slightly more literary Michael Moore. The book is written in the same freewheeling style, but there&#8217;s just a little bit more depth. Sometimes he&#8217;s a little off the mark [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}