{"id":272,"date":"2005-05-17T07:11:00","date_gmt":"2005-05-17T07:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/2005\/05\/ronaldo-in-palestine\/"},"modified":"2008-12-04T07:39:55","modified_gmt":"2008-12-04T07:39:55","slug":"ronaldo-in-palestine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/2005\/05\/ronaldo-in-palestine\/","title":{"rendered":"Ronaldo In Palestine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/media\/images\/41151000\/jpg\/_41151425_scarf_ap245.jpg\" alt=\"\" align=\"left\" \/>My respect for Ronaldo, the great Brazilian footballing capybara, has risen. <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/in_pictures\/4552611.stm\">The BBC<\/a> have a superb series of pictures showing his visit to Ramallah.<\/p>\n<p>My gorgeous girlfriend has friends and relatives living there. It&#8217;s a nightmare of checkpoints and curfews and random violence, and it is characterised by the resident population&#8217;s great fortitude and complete determination not to allow the occupiers to win. As Peter Ustinov said, the Jews were the first victims of the Nazis, the Palestinians are the last.<\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"390\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/funk.co.uk\/blogpix\/ustinov-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"175\" \/><\/td>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/funk.co.uk\/blogpix\/capybara-038.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"175\" height=\"270\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr><em>Peter Ustinov and Ronaldo &#8211; can you tell which is which?<\/em><\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Detox news: I went for a run. I am really looking forward to next weekend, and the beer and wine I shall not be drinking&#8230; Detox means: no coffee, alchohol, sweets, high fat food, meat. There&#8217;s no pressing need for this, it&#8217;s just vanity. I want my babysoft skin to stay on my body. I want to continue to sing like an angel and make music with the enthusiasm of a man half my age. I want to remain svelte. I want to write a book. I found an agent here in London who is interested. This is all the inspiration I need.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My respect for Ronaldo, the great Brazilian footballing capybara, has risen. The BBC have a superb series of pictures showing his visit to Ramallah. My gorgeous girlfriend has friends and relatives living there. It&#8217;s a nightmare of checkpoints and curfews and random violence, and it is characterised by the resident population&#8217;s great fortitude and complete [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":126,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[9,10,780,8],"class_list":["post-272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funky-original","tag-palestine","tag-ronaldo","tag-funky-original","tag-ustinov"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/126"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1246,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272\/revisions\/1246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}