{"id":4210,"date":"2020-10-19T00:55:49","date_gmt":"2020-10-19T00:55:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lovemesaidhenry.com\/lovemesaidhenry\/?p=4210"},"modified":"2020-10-19T01:03:08","modified_gmt":"2020-10-19T01:03:08","slug":"possums","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.lovemesaidhenry.com\/lovemesaidhenry\/possums\/","title":{"rendered":"Possums."},"content":{"rendered":"

You poisoned me again<\/span><\/p>\n

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We did not<\/span><\/p>\n

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You did.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Maybe if you\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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How are you going to run that with artists? \u2018If you don\u2019t do what we want, we\u2019ll make you throw up.\u2019 Idiots.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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You know the rules\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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\nNever seen them, don\u2019t know them. A bit like you and God.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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This isn\u2019t the time\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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I think a run against the religious a bit much\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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We didn\u2019t do anything. Prove it.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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How? If we don\u2019t know the rules and you keep changing them! I throw up when I advocate Western aims, I throw up when I don\u2019t, do you have any idea when the children will know what they are doing is right or wrong? Because I think it would be safe to say, as you can be involved in secret missions that break rules<\/span><\/p>\n

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You don\u2019t know that<\/span><\/p>\n

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Ok, an informed guess\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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You don\u2019t know that. Operational matters have rules.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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There are no rules in New Journalism.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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There are rules. You just know when you discussing someone\u2019s affair is correct and when it is not.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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The media has broken that rule millions of times!<\/span><\/p>\n

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That\u2019s right. How you behave is a reflection of your person and professionalism. It is up to you. It is a moral choice.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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How can self-satire be a crime? I am satirising myself!<\/span><\/p>\n

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Ah but it has consequences.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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How? I was simply adding a bit to an electric chicken dance. You can\u2019t poison someone for five seconds of fleeting footage.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Ali, you know what you did. And I can never work out when you are Augustus and when you are Hitchens. It seems to change with the days.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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See? See what you have taught me! I\u2019m a shape shifter. For tha\u2019 people!<\/span><\/p>\n

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You\u2019re old enough to know better.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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The footy club wanted me to go there! They want me to go in, under the posts and score runs!<\/span><\/p>\n

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They did not.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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They did. You want fans, you better stop making foreign policy the province of dull twats\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Logistical matters are important.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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You asked me to go there!<\/span><\/p>\n

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We did not.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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You did to so!<\/span><\/p>\n

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You\u2019re hurting yourself<\/span><\/p>\n

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The only people that will bring foreign policy back into something respectable are creative individuals that highlight the\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Oh that would be you, right?\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Well, actually now that you mention it\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Surprise sur<\/span><\/p>\n

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You can\u2019t keep poisoning me!<\/span><\/p>\n

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Do something about it.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Oh this is going to be great. Edina and Patsy off to the High Court.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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We\u2019ll help you.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Oh yeah, like you have before? No thanks. It would be like Christopher Hitchens helping Mother Theresa. The Presenter will ask for my phone number 17 times a day until I find out\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Think of it like charades. But with words.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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I just can\u2019t believe it, while Kamala is entering into the hollowed halls, I am going to be fighting\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Well we don\u2019t know that yet. You might get way laid and swim across to Duntroon. Nude foreign policy bulletins in fairy floss coat?\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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You\u2019re stealing my ideas!<\/span><\/p>\n

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Oh, but aren\u2019t they great ones.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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If only you knew<\/span><\/p>\n

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But we do darling. We do.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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shuffles paper, walks out.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

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You poisoned me again   We did not   You did.   Maybe if you\u00a0   How are you going to run that with artists? \u2018If you don\u2019t do what we want, we\u2019ll make you throw up.\u2019 Idiots.\u00a0   You know the rules\u00a0   Never seen them, don\u2019t know them. A bit like you and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4212,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[31],"class_list":["post-4210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-as-if","post-preview"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.lovemesaidhenry.com\/lovemesaidhenry\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Screen-Shot-2020-10-19-at-11.48.41-am.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lovemesaidhenry.com\/lovemesaidhenry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lovemesaidhenry.com\/lovemesaidhenry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lovemesaidhenry.com\/lovemesaidhenry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lovemesaidhenry.com\/lovemesaidhenry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lovemesaidhenry.com\/lovemesaidhenry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4210"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.lovemesaidhenry.com\/lovemesaidhenry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4216,"href":"http:\/\/www.lovemesaidhenry.com\/lovemesaidhenry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4210\/revisions\/4216"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lovemesaidhenry.com\/lovemesaidhenry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lovemesaidhenry.com\/lovemesaidhenry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lovemesaidhenry.com\/lovemesaidhenry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lovemesaidhenry.com\/lovemesaidhenry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}