{"id":28161,"date":"2020-04-29T16:41:52","date_gmt":"2020-04-29T20:41:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=28161"},"modified":"2020-04-29T16:41:52","modified_gmt":"2020-04-29T20:41:52","slug":"sit-softly-for-you-sit-on-my-satire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/sit-softly-for-you-sit-on-my-satire\/","title":{"rendered":"Sit softly for you sit on my satire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many years ago Malcolm Muggeridge published a collection of essays called \u201cTread Softly for You Tread on My Jokes\u201d. I still have a yellowing copy on my bookshelf. The title is inspired by a poem by <a href=\"https:\/\/poets.org\/poem\/aedh-wishes-cloths-heaven\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">W. B. Yeats<\/a> and, as I recall, expressed Muggeridge\u2019s frustration when he was editor of Punch at trying to out-parody a civilisation that had already become a parody of itself.<\/p>\n<p>He could not have known that worse was to come.<\/p>\n<p>Here is one of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/politics\/pandemic-covid-coronavirus-medically-assisted-death-maid-1.5548058\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">today\u2019s headlines<\/a> from the CBC who, it seems, are blissfully oblivious to its idiocy:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-28162\" src=\"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/2020-04-29_163047-1009x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"266\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/2020-04-29_163047-1009x1024.jpg 1009w, https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/2020-04-29_163047-296x300.jpg 296w, https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/2020-04-29_163047-768x779.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/2020-04-29_163047.jpg 1314w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 266px) 100vw, 266px\" \/>The pandemic is making it harder to deliver medically assisted death, doctors say<br \/>\n<\/strong>Some doctors say the pandemic is making it harder to\u00a0provide\u00a0medically assisted deaths to patients who request them,\u00a0due to\u00a0shortages of\u00a0protective masks and gowns and last-minute scrambles to find\u00a0places to perform the procedure.<\/p>\n<p>The pandemic also is being cited as the cause of a reported surge in public interest in assisted death.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many years ago Malcolm Muggeridge published a collection of essays called \u201cTread Softly for You Tread on My Jokes\u201d. I still have a yellowing copy on my bookshelf. The title is inspired by a poem by W. B. Yeats and, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/sit-softly-for-you-sit-on-my-satire\/\">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":3,"footnotes":""},"categories":[138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-euthanasia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28161","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=28161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}