{"id":447,"date":"2006-03-04T22:46:00","date_gmt":"2006-03-04T22:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/2006\/03\/god-told-me-to-do-it\/"},"modified":"2006-03-04T22:46:00","modified_gmt":"2006-03-04T22:46:00","slug":"god-told-me-to-do-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/2006\/03\/god-told-me-to-do-it\/","title":{"rendered":"God Told Me To Do It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/funk.co.uk\/blogpix\/blair_in_church.jpg\" \/><br \/>After Tony Blair&#8217;s revelation about God on the Parkinson chat show (see tonight, ITV1)&#8230; I have penned this little ditty.<\/p>\n<p>(intro &#8211; spoken)<\/p>\n<p>In politics, like life, there is no turning back<br \/>And once you&#8217;ve let the people down, you&#8217;re sure to get the sack<br \/>The road runs only forwards upon one single track<br \/>To bomb, or to negotiate? To talk or to attack?<br \/>To just say no to Uncle Sam, or to invade Iraq?<\/p>\n<p>(chorus)<\/p>\n<p><i>God told me to do it<br \/>Jesus talked me through it<\/i><\/p>\n<p>When I had my doubts<br \/>And everyone said &#8220;wait&#8221;<br \/>I had chat with angels<br \/>And they told me it was Fate<\/p>\n<p><i>God told me to do it<br \/>Jesus talked me through it<\/i><\/p>\n<p>And when Hans Blix was looking<br \/>For those weapons in the sand<br \/>He provided Mass Distraction<br \/>And the Devil in Saddam<\/p>\n<p><i>God told me to do it<br \/>Jesus talked me through it<\/i><\/p>\n<p>So what could a man of conscience do<br \/>Except to kill and maim<br \/>Two hundred thousand people<br \/>In the Almighty&#8217;s name?<\/p>\n<p><i>God &#8211; told me &#8211; to do it&#8230;<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After Tony Blair&#8217;s revelation about God on the Parkinson chat show (see tonight, ITV1)&#8230; I have penned this little ditty. (intro &#8211; spoken) In politics, like life, there is no turning backAnd once you&#8217;ve let the people down, you&#8217;re sure to get the sackThe road runs only forwards upon one single trackTo bomb, or to [&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":[780],"class_list":["post-447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funky-original","tag-funky-original"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447","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=447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}