{"id":16398,"date":"2015-06-15T11:06:07","date_gmt":"2015-06-15T15:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/?p=16398"},"modified":"2022-06-03T09:49:06","modified_gmt":"2022-06-03T13:49:06","slug":"the-multimillionaire-arms-dealer-by-appointment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2015\/06\/the-multimillionaire-arms-dealer-by-appointment.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;The Multimillionaire Arms Dealer &#8212; By Appointment&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>A new poem by Heathcote Williams, posted at IT: International Times, begins like this:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_16401\" style=\"width: 270px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/internationaltimes.it\/the-multi-millionaire-arms-dealer-by-appointment\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16401\" data-attachment-id=\"16401\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2015\/06\/the-multimillionaire-arms-dealer-by-appointment.html\/arms-dealer260_\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/arms-dealer260_.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"260,254\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"arms-dealer(260_\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size=2&gt;Illustration by Elena Caldera&lt;\/font&gt;&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/arms-dealer260_.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/arms-dealer260_.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Illustration by Elena Caldera. Click to read  'The Multimillionaire Arms Dealer -- By Appointment.'\" width=\"260\" height=\"254\" class=\"size-full wp-image-16401\"><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-16401\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><font size=\"2\">Illustration by Elena Caldera<\/font><\/p><\/div>\n<p>There\u2019s no difference between being an arms dealer<br \/>\nAnd being a wanted war criminal.<br \/>\nAlthough you don\u2019t have to get your hands bloody<br \/>\nThe results are equally abhorrent.<\/p>\n<p>But arms dealing will suit anyone used to gracious living<br \/>\nIn one dinosaur nest after another &#8212;<br \/>\nSuch as Balmoral, or Clarence House, or Highgrove,<br \/>\nThanks to a billionaire mother.<\/p>\n<p><em>Read the complete poem <a href=\"http:\/\/internationaltimes.it\/the-multi-millionaire-arms-dealer-by-appointment\/\">here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new poem by Heathcote Williams, posted at IT: International Times, begins like this: There\u2019s no difference between being an arms dealer And being a wanted war criminal. Although you don\u2019t have to get your hands bloody The results are equally abhorrent. But arms dealing will suit anyone used to gracious living In one dinosaur [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":16401,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-16398","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-political-culture","8":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/arms-dealer260_.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-4gu","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16398"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51396,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16398\/revisions\/51396"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}