{"id":851,"date":"2004-09-29T23:42:20","date_gmt":"2004-09-29T23:42:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/2004\/09\/club_class\/"},"modified":"2004-09-29T23:42:20","modified_gmt":"2004-09-29T23:42:20","slug":"club_class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/2004\/09\/club_class\/","title":{"rendered":"Club Class"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m just beginning to catch up on the recent Radio 4 series &#8211; Club Class. The first of the latest series featured the <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.parascope.com\/articles\/0997\/skullbones.htm\">Skulls and Bones <\/A>&#8211; a secret society which invites just 15 new members a year, yet has both George W Bush and John Kerry as members. The really interesting thing about this is that none of them will talk about. The programme couldn&#8217;t get any of the organisation&#8217;s members to talk about it. But plenty of members have reached high office in the States, and there are only around 800 members alive in total.<br \/>\nI know that this is the stuff of conspiracy theorists, but if there wasn&#8217;t a story there, then either Bush or Kerry should just say that it was all a bad idea and a silly student organisation that they joined.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m just beginning to catch up on the recent Radio 4 series &#8211; Club Class. The first of the latest series featured the Skulls and Bones &#8211; a secret society which invites just 15 new members a year, yet has both George W Bush and John Kerry as members. The really interesting thing about this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}