{"id":7853,"date":"2019-07-27T09:11:15","date_gmt":"2019-07-27T00:11:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/?p=7853"},"modified":"2019-07-27T09:11:16","modified_gmt":"2019-07-27T00:11:16","slug":"the-guardian-july-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/?p=7853","title":{"rendered":"The Guardian (July 26)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe political sphere, so dull and grey a few years ago, is now populated by preposterous exhibitionists. This trend is not confined to the UK \u2013 everywhere the killer clowns are taking over. Boris Johnson, Nigel Farage, Donald Trump, Narendra Modi, Jair Bolsonaro, Scott Morrison, Rodrigo Duterte, Matteo Salvini, Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan, Viktor Orb\u00e1n and a host of other ludicrous strongmen \u2013 or weakmen, as they so often turn out to be \u2013 dominate nations that would once have laughed them off stage. The question is why? Why are the technocrats who held sway almost everywhere a few years ago giving way to extravagant buffoons?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe political sphere, so dull and grey a few years ago, is now populated by preposterous exhibitionists. This trend is not confined to the UK \u2013 everywhere the killer clowns are taking over. Boris Johnson, Nigel Farage, Donald Trump, Narendra Modi, Jair Bolsonaro, Scott Morrison, Rodrigo Duterte, Matteo Salvini, Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan, Viktor Orb\u00e1n and [&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":[9373,5930,6219,759,9378,9377,9215,3720,9372,9371,9376,9339,9374,9189,2147,5161,118],"class_list":["post-7853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-global-news","tag-clowns","tag-dull","tag-duterte","tag-erdogan","tag-exhibitionists","tag-farage","tag-johnson","tag-modi","tag-orban","tag-political-sphere","tag-preposterous","tag-salvini","tag-strongmen","tag-technocrats","tag-trend","tag-trump","tag-uk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7853"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7856,"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7853\/revisions\/7856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}