{"id":161,"date":"2008-02-01T22:52:56","date_gmt":"2008-02-02T02:52:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meadowparty.com\/blog\/?p=161"},"modified":"2008-02-01T22:52:56","modified_gmt":"2008-02-02T02:52:56","slug":"life-imitates-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/01\/life-imitates-art\/","title":{"rendered":"Life imitates art."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2008\/WORLD\/meast\/02\/01\/iraq.main\/index.html> U.S.: &#8216;Demonic&#8217; militants sent women to bomb markets in Iraq<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Two mentally disabled women were strapped with explosives Friday and sent into busy Baghdad markets, where they were blown up by remote control, a top Iraqi government official said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This bears a disturbing resemblance to the main plot point of Conrad&#8217;s <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&#038;location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FSecret-Agent-Signet-Classics%2Fdp%2F0451524160&#038;tag=meadowpartyco-20&#038;linkCode=ur2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325\">The Secret Agent<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=meadowpartyco-20&amp;l=ur2&amp;o=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/><\/i>, except that in Conrad&#8217;s book, Verloc doesn&#8217;t necessarily intend for the mentally disabled character to die.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S.: &#8216;Demonic&#8217; militants sent women to bomb markets in Iraq: Two mentally disabled women were strapped with explosives Friday and sent into busy Baghdad markets, where they were blown up by remote control, a top Iraqi government official said. This bears a disturbing resemblance to the main plot point of Conrad&#8217;s The Secret Agent, except [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[112,853],"class_list":["post-161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literature","tag-english-literature","tag-news","entry"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}