{"id":21552,"date":"2014-05-24T00:37:51","date_gmt":"2014-05-24T04:37:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=21552"},"modified":"2014-05-25T08:47:37","modified_gmt":"2014-05-25T12:47:37","slug":"some-animals-are-more-equal-than-others-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/some-animals-are-more-equal-than-others-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Some animals are more equal than others"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fidel Castro, having built a socialist paradise chose not to live it himself, preferring instead to indulge in the fruits of capitalism: yachts, servants, his own island, gourmet food and every luxury his vast wealth could afford. Including Viagra to fuel his waning appetites in old age. It will be a cold day in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cubademocraciayvida.org\/web\/article.asp?artID=11969\" target=\"_blank\">Combinado del Este<\/a> before <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0342213\/\" target=\"_blank\">Oliver Stone<\/a> makes a documentary about that, of course.<\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-2637927\/Castro-commie-hypocrite-lives-like-billionaire-Hes-posed-man-people-But-new-book-reveals-Cubas-leader-led-life-pampered-hedonism-fortune-big-Queens.html?ITO=1490&amp;ns_mchannel=rss&amp;ns_campaign=1490\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In a new, 338-page memoir, titled The Hidden Life Of Fidel Castro (published in France by Michel Lafon and co-authored by Axel Gyld\u00e9n), Sanchez, an employee of 20 years\u2019 standing, lifts the lid on the luxurious excesses enjoyed by the autocrat and his inner circle.<\/p>\n<p>The book portrays a man obsessed with power and money, who styled himself as a hero of the working classes while living the opulent existence of a medieval potentate.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fidel Castro, having built a socialist paradise chose not to live it himself, preferring instead to indulge in the fruits of capitalism: yachts, servants, his own island, gourmet food and every luxury his vast wealth could afford. Including Viagra to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/some-animals-are-more-equal-than-others-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1805],"tags":[2096,756],"class_list":["post-21552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-socialism-2","tag-cuba","tag-fidel-castro"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21552\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}