{"id":16765,"date":"2024-04-26T19:29:58","date_gmt":"2024-04-26T18:29:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/this-is-the-news\/"},"modified":"2024-11-21T03:53:09","modified_gmt":"2024-11-21T03:53:09","slug":"this-is-the-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/this-is-the-news\/","title":{"rendered":"This is the News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>This is the News<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>by David Betteridge<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Today:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Household Cavalry horses run amok<br \/>\nthrough London streets,<br \/>\ntheir riders having lost control.<\/p>\n<p><em>Most days:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Multitudinous rivers of sewage run amuck<br \/>\nthrough England&#8217;s brown unpleasant land,<br \/>\nwater companies having declined<br \/>\nto exercise control.<\/p>\n<p><em>Any day soon:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Civilisation finally goes to fuck,<br \/>\nthe world&#8217;s blood-soaked and shitty governments<br \/>\nhaving been allowed to exercise too much control.<\/p>\n<p><em>When?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The People rise.<br \/>\nThere is a shift in power,<br \/>\nbeing civilisation&#8217;s last and only hope.<br \/>\nWorkers&#8217; control becomes the norm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the News by David Betteridge Today: Household Cavalry horses run amok through London streets, their riders having lost control. Most days: Multitudinous rivers of sewage&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":380,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1660],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/380"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16765"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20645,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16765\/revisions\/20645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}