{"id":2147,"date":"2012-10-25T16:55:49","date_gmt":"2012-10-25T16:55:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/?p=2147"},"modified":"2012-10-25T22:12:34","modified_gmt":"2012-10-25T22:12:34","slug":"a-government-that-listens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/?p=2147","title":{"rendered":"A government that listens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/epetitions.direct.gov.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Submitted:<\/a><br \/>\n&#8220;Allow the government to fine media corporations for printing photographs of Jimmy Savile unless they&#8217;re strictly necessary, e.g., a story on the badger cull in which the reporter wishes to illustrate which celebrities the elusive creatures resemble (Simon Cowell, arguably) and don&#8217;t (Savile).<\/p>\n<p>Henceforth all online articles may only contain a link saying <em>Click here for a picture if you must<\/em>, accompanied by a PayPal button for charity (possibly badgers?)<\/p>\n<p>We all know what he looks like; there&#8217;s no need to continue the suffering.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/savile.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2149\" title=\"savile\" src=\"http:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/savile.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"268\" srcset=\"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/savile.jpg 400w, https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/savile-300x201.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nCorrection: he does look a bit like a badger.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s not been confirmed that he abused any.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Submitted: &#8220;Allow the government to fine media corporations for printing photographs of Jimmy Savile unless they&#8217;re strictly necessary, e.g., a story on the badger cull in which the reporter wishes to illustrate which celebrities the elusive creatures resemble (Simon Cowell, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/?p=2147\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2147"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2147"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2163,"href":"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2147\/revisions\/2163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}