{"id":425,"date":"2007-05-14T13:42:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-14T19:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/?p=425"},"modified":"2007-05-14T13:42:00","modified_gmt":"2007-05-14T19:42:00","slug":"sweeney-antagonistes-etc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/2007\/05\/sweeney-antagonistes-etc\/","title":{"rendered":"Sweeney antagonistes (etc.)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcaps\">T<\/span>he cult of <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/programmes\/4770498.stm\" target=\"_blank\">John Sweeney<\/a><\/span> may be smaller than that of <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/L._Ron_Hubbard\" target=\"_blank\">L.Ron Hubbard<\/a>, but it owes more to diuretics than dianetics. Here&#8217;s Sweeney explaining how a school theatrical role as an RSM in <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Oh%21_What_a_Lovely_War\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Oh What A Lovely War!<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"> <\/span>inspired him to an outburst that had my three-year-old son saying, \u201cThat man is frightening me.\u201d (<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Joan_Littlewood\">Joan Littlewood<\/a> has a lot to answer for&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p><object height=\"350\" width=\"425\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/OVAeL8AyYeI\"><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/OVAeL8AyYeI\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" height=\"350\" width=\"425\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>And if you saw that performance of <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">Oh What A Lovely War!<\/span> &#8211; please share.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The cult of John Sweeney may be smaller than that of L.Ron Hubbard, but it owes more to diuretics than dianetics. Here&#8217;s Sweeney explaining how a school theatrical role as an RSM in Oh What A Lovely War! inspired him to an outburst that had my three-year-old son saying, \u201cThat man is frightening me.\u201d (Joan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journalism","category-journalists"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}