{"id":9028,"date":"2019-08-15T19:36:23","date_gmt":"2019-08-15T18:36:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/?p=9028"},"modified":"2020-04-15T17:09:27","modified_gmt":"2020-04-15T16:09:27","slug":"9028","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/?p=9028","title":{"rendered":"In the news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reading the latest of <a class=\"bbc_link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-49358108\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">what passes for news,<\/a> I see that the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Arron_Banks#Early_life\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">bad boy from Basingstoke<\/a> prompted Caroline Lucas to report him after setting Twitter squawking with his expressed desire to see a teenager drown in the Atlantic ocean. Well, when you put it that way.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"bbc_link\" href=\"http:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/?p=5021\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Having incited<\/a> my own much more modest mob a number of years ago, and being versed in tribal politics, I will admit to finding merit in his non-apology: &#8220;Obviously I don&#8217;t hope she encounters a freak yachting accident! \u2026 I just enjoy watching the ludicrous tweeter mob following the next outrage.&#8221; Doubtless he spat out the bones of a baby kitten immediately after providing that quote.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/BBCLucas.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9023\" src=\"http:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/BBCLucas.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"751\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading the latest of what passes for news, I see that the bad boy from Basingstoke prompted Caroline Lucas to report him after setting Twitter squawking with his expressed desire to see a teenager drown in the Atlantic ocean. Well, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/?p=9028\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9028"}],"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=9028"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10290,"href":"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9028\/revisions\/10290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}