{"id":538,"date":"2013-10-24T01:00:56","date_gmt":"2013-10-23T23:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jonathan-cook.net\/blog\/?p=538"},"modified":"2013-10-27T21:03:45","modified_gmt":"2013-10-27T19:03:45","slug":"russell-brand-lets-rip-on-jeremy-paxman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jonathan-cook.net\/blog\/2013-10-24\/russell-brand-lets-rip-on-jeremy-paxman\/","title":{"rendered":"Russell Brand lets rip on Jeremy Paxman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Great to see Russell Brand getting fired up like this on Newsnight, finally showing his anger at Jeremy Paxman&#8217;s tedious incomprehension that Brand&#8217;s refusal to vote for any of the candidates in a corrupt political system might actually be both a more rational and a more ethical act than Paxman&#8217;s choice over decades to conspire in meaningless political theatre. Worth watching till the final minute, when Brand really lets rip on Paxman.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/3YR4CseY9pk?rel=0\" height=\"390\" width=\"520\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Great to see Russell Brand getting fired up like this on Newsnight, finally showing his anger at Jeremy Paxman&#8217;s tedious incomprehension that Brand&#8217;s refusal to vote for any of the candidates in a corrupt political system might actually be both a more rational and a more ethical act than Paxman&#8217;s choice over decades to conspire [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5,6,47],"class_list":{"0":"post-538","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"tag-corporations","8":"tag-media-criticism","9":"tag-russell-brand"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathan-cook.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathan-cook.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathan-cook.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathan-cook.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathan-cook.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathan-cook.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathan-cook.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathan-cook.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathan-cook.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}