{"id":79826,"date":"2020-04-05T11:31:25","date_gmt":"2020-04-05T16:31:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/?p=79826"},"modified":"2020-04-08T09:44:53","modified_gmt":"2020-04-08T14:44:53","slug":"a-different-sort-of-paper-chase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/a-different-sort-of-paper-chase\/","title":{"rendered":"A different sort of paper chase"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.takimag.com\/article\/paper-chase\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Theodore Dalrymple<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Considering how large a part it has played in my life, I have given very little thought to toilet paper, its production, and its transcendent importance. However, I once visited the main prison in the former Soviet Republic of Georgia where, as perhaps you might expect, it was in short supply. The prisoners, however, had at least a temporary solution to the problem: the Complete Works of Lenin.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Which reminds me of a passage in Russian dancer Valery Panov&#8217;s autobiography concerning the vital role of the press in the Soviet Union. During his student days, circa 1950, pages of <i>Pravda<\/i> or <i>Isvestia<\/i> was torn into eight strips and the strips crumpled until they were soft enough to use as the Soviet prisoners used Lenin.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, American plumbing is too delicate and narrow to accommodate any but the flimsiest forms of wood pulp, so it would be impractical to use the print edition of <i>The Wichita Eagle<\/i> for the purpose to which it is best suited.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Theodore Dalrymple: Considering how large a part it has played in my life, I have given very little thought to toilet paper, its production, and its transcendent importance. However, I once visited the main prison in the former Soviet Republic of Georgia where, as perhaps you might expect, it was in short supply. The prisoners, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/a-different-sort-of-paper-chase\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A different sort of paper chase&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-decline-and-fall"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xam3-kLw","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79826"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80297,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79826\/revisions\/80297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}