{"id":47004,"date":"2019-12-02T07:50:24","date_gmt":"2019-12-02T07:50:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=47004"},"modified":"2019-12-02T07:50:24","modified_gmt":"2019-12-02T07:50:24","slug":"quote-of-the-day-johnson-is-someone-whose-narcissism-leaves-him-devoid-of-empathy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2019\/12\/02\/quote-of-the-day-johnson-is-someone-whose-narcissism-leaves-him-devoid-of-empathy\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the day: Johnson is &#8216;someone whose narcissism leaves him devoid of empathy&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Quote of the day from John Crace, in The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2019\/dec\/01\/boris-johnson-a-one-trick-pony-straight-out-of-the-political-wild-west\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Guardian<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Johnson used to at least be able to give a passable imitation of being Boris Johnson. Now he can\u2019t even manage that. The gags and the mannerisms that used to be his calling card, now just fall flat. A one-trick pony whose one trick everyone knows. The surface has been stripped bare to reveal a core of molten need. Someone who craves attention and fears he wouldn\u2019t exist without it. Someone whose narcissism leaves him devoid of empathy. Incapable of either giving or receiving love.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There's really not much more to add to that. I think it true that he is a man devoid of empathy. Despite which he is the person forecast to be our next prime minister.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quote of the day from John Crace, in The Guardian: Johnson used to at least be able to give a passable imitation of being Boris<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2019\/12\/02\/quote-of-the-day-johnson-is-someone-whose-narcissism-leaves-him-devoid-of-empathy\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[96],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conservatives"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47004\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}