{"id":935,"date":"2006-05-02T20:36:04","date_gmt":"2006-05-03T01:36:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/council-house-facelift\/"},"modified":"2006-05-02T20:45:10","modified_gmt":"2006-05-03T01:45:10","slug":"council-house-facelift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/council-house-facelift","title":{"rendered":"Council House Facelift"},"content":{"rendered":"

Andrew Sullivan relates that he introduced Chris Hitchens to the term “chav”<\/a>, which I first came across last September in a great NYTimes article<\/a> about chav culture.<\/p>\n

The article focused on a lottery winner who, post-millions, continued to get arrested for shooting the rear-view mirrors out of cars with his wrist rocket.<\/p>\n

Anyway, Sullivan’s post also includes a link to ChavScum<\/a>, our newest favorite site. Enjoy the Agony Aunt<\/a>. I, for one, would love to be a fly on the wall for the conversation in which Sullivan explains the chav concept to Hitchens.<\/p>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Andrew Sullivan relates that he introduced Chris Hitchens to the term “chav”, which I first came across last September in a great NYTimes article about chav culture. The article focused on a lottery winner who, post-millions, continued to get arrested for shooting the rear-view mirrors out of cars with his wrist rocket. Anyway, Sullivan’s post … <\/p>\n

Continue reading “Council House Facelift”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apes"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-f5","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":679,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/happy-birthday","url_meta":{"origin":935,"position":0},"title":"Happy Birthday!","author":"Gil","date":"October 25, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"According to the wall calendar in my office, Monday was \"UN Day\"! So, to honor that occasion, here's a link to the Word document of the Mehlis report about the Hariri assassination in Lebanon.(This would be the file that includes the \"Track Changes\" fixes by the UN Secretariat's office, in\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":6212,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/post-hitch","url_meta":{"origin":935,"position":1},"title":"Post Hitch","author":"Gil","date":"December 17, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"I was pretty saddened yesterday by the news of Christopher Hitchens' death. The inevitability of his cancer diagnosis meant it was a matter of short time, but the lucidity and intelligence of his subsequent writings must have left me optimistic that he'd recover. I'm going to read some of his\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "literature"","block_context":{"text":"literature","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/literature"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=virtualmemories-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0316926108","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":909,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/um-happy-easter","url_meta":{"origin":935,"position":2},"title":"Um, Happy Easter?","author":"Gil","date":"April 16, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Okay, probably not, if you read this column by Christopher Hitchens about that \"Lost Gospel of Judas\" controversy. Since I don't have a horse in this race, my opinion shouldn't count for much, but if you're dealing with the earthly incarnation of an ominpotent, omniscient divinity, then it'd be awful\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Religion"","block_context":{"text":"Religion","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/religion"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2047,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/unrequired-reading-may-9-2008","url_meta":{"origin":935,"position":3},"title":"Unrequired Reading: May 9, 2008","author":"Gil","date":"May 9, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"My office decided to go with Friday summer hours (8am-1pm) a few weeks early! We rock! Now enjoy some Unrequired Reading, especially those of you who have to work a full day! Ron Rosenbaum recently wrote about the world of Nigerian 419 scammers and their tormentors, and he took the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Architecture"","block_context":{"text":"Architecture","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/architecture"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":4493,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/unrequired-reading-sept-25-2009","url_meta":{"origin":935,"position":4},"title":"Unrequired Reading: Sept. 25, 2009","author":"Gil","date":"September 25, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Okay, I'm getting to this late; our conference really wiped me out this week. But it was a raging success, so I'm happy. But exhausted.. If you're looking for some weird and fun links, just click \"more\"! Lisa Simpson, in this house, we obey the laws of thermodynamics! * *\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Politics (explicit)"","block_context":{"text":"Politics (explicit)","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/politics-explicit"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":5223,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/unrequired-reading-april-23-2010","url_meta":{"origin":935,"position":5},"title":"Unrequired Reading: April 23, 2010","author":"Gil","date":"April 23, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"I'm just back from a week at the Interphex conference in NYC, so consider this an extra-hurried \/ extra-harried installment of Unrequired Reading! I'm joining the Unter Gang. I'm glad to see that Hitler isn't taking this sitting down. (Also, I had no idea the first one was about Hitler\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Art"","block_context":{"text":"Art","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/art"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/935\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}