{"id":11809,"date":"2022-10-11T10:24:54","date_gmt":"2022-10-11T10:24:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/?p=11809"},"modified":"2022-10-11T10:32:32","modified_gmt":"2022-10-11T10:32:32","slug":"red-menace-in-sw1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/?p=11809","title":{"rendered":"Red menace in SW1"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\nYour &#8216;umble scribe recalls a phrase from his <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cold_War\">Cold War<\/a> childhood &#8211; the Red Menace. This was a term used at that time to describe the Soviet Union or an &#8220;international communist conspiracy&#8221;; an alternative was the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Red_Scare\"><em>Red Scare<\/em><\/a>. By the time of the Cold War, the Russian revolution and establishment of the Soviet Union caused widespread concern among the political elites of the major powers for many decades.\r\n<p>However, Larry the Downing Street cat (<em><abbr title=\"also known as\">aka<\/abbr> Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office. Ed.<\/em>) has been dealing with a red menace of his own in the shape of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Reynard_the_Fox\">Reynard the Fox<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n<div class=\"epyt-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto;\"  id=\"_ytid_93208\"  width=\"600\" height=\"338\"  data-origwidth=\"600\" data-origheight=\"338\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YvZZyoz9Gs8?enablejsapi=1&autoplay=0&cc_load_policy=0&cc_lang_pref=&iv_load_policy=1&loop=0&rel=0&fs=1&playsinline=0&autohide=2&theme=dark&color=red&controls=1&disablekb=0&\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  no-lazyload\" title=\"Larry the cat chases off fox outside No 10 downing street\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div>\r\n<p>Any connection of Larry&#8217;s interloper with Keir Starmer&#8217;s Labour Party should be dismissed. The fox&#8217;s colouration far too dubious to be allowed into his nominally red party. \ud83d\ude00<\/p> ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Your &#8216;umble scribe recalls a phrase from his Cold War childhood &#8211; the Red Menace. This was a term used at that time to describe the Soviet Union or an &#8220;international communist conspiracy&#8221;; an alternative was the Red Scare. By the time of the Cold War, the Russian revolution and establishment of the Soviet Union [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,32,17,15],"tags":[16,22,33,20],"class_list":["post-11809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-translation-and-language-related-matters","category-media","category-oddities","category-politics","tag-english-usage","tag-language","tag-media-2","tag-politics-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11809"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11831,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11809\/revisions\/11831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}