{"id":1976,"date":"2005-08-08T00:37:30","date_gmt":"2005-08-08T05:37:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=1976"},"modified":"2005-08-08T12:52:44","modified_gmt":"2005-08-08T17:52:44","slug":"izzard_vents_hi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2005\/08\/08\/izzard_vents_hi\/","title":{"rendered":"Izzard vents his gizzard"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/A><\/P>\n

Cross-dressing British comic Eddie Izzard<\/A> performs a very funny Monty Python-ish bit<\/A> about how Britain conquered India (thanks, ms<\/A>). In his formulation, a flag is like letterhead. Any self-respecting, Brazil<\/A><\/EM>-ian bureaucracy must have one.<\/P>\n

\n

That’s how you build an empire: we stole countries with the cunning use of flags. You just sail around the world and stick a flag in: ‘I claim India for Britain.’<\/P>\n

And they go, ‘You can’t claim us, we live here. 500 million of us!’<\/P>\n

‘Do you have a flag?’<\/BLOCKQUOTE>\n

Watch the clip<\/A>.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Cross-dressing British comic Eddie Izzard performs a very funny Monty Python-ish bit about how Britain conquered India (thanks, ms). In his formulation, a flag is like letterhead. Any self-respecting, Brazil-ian bureaucracy must have one. That’s how you build an empire: we … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1976"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1976\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}