{"id":4140,"date":"2016-10-07T15:36:55","date_gmt":"2016-10-07T14:36:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/?p=4140"},"modified":"2016-10-07T15:36:55","modified_gmt":"2016-10-07T14:36:55","slug":"political-animals-trailer-take-your-mind-off-the-real-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/2016\/10\/07\/political-animals-trailer-take-your-mind-off-the-real-thing\/","title":{"rendered":"Political Animals Trailer! Take your mind off the real thing!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With politics descending globally into farce, with politicians <a href=\"http:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2016\/09\/30\/asia\/duterte-hitler-comparison\/\">comparing themselves to Hitler<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2016\/10\/06\/ukip-leadership-favourite-steven-woolfe-collapses-at-european-parliament-6175325\/\">punching others in the head<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2016\/jun\/28\/donald-trump-ohio-rally-isis-torture-tpp-rape\">supporting torture<\/a>, wanting &#8216;companies who employ foreigners&#8217; to be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thetimes.co.uk\/article\/firms-must-list-foreign-workers-gw20ndp5x\">named and shamed<\/a>&#8230;.jeez&#8230; there is not much humour to be had in the world of politics.<\/p>\n<p><strong>OR IS THERE?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t want to do a trailer for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politicalanimalsgame.com\/\">Political Animals<\/a>&#8230;but the developers in the Philippines insisted that we build a beautiful trailer and make the UK publisher pay for it. And I couldn&#8217;t say no. So here it is&#8230;Enjoy!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nSn_QP02gFM?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With politics descending globally into farce, with politicians comparing themselves to Hitler, punching others in the head, supporting torture, wanting &#8216;companies who employ foreigners&#8217; to be named and shamed&#8230;.jeez&#8230; there is not much humour to be had in the world of politics. OR IS THERE? I didn&#8217;t want to do a trailer for Political Animals&#8230;but<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-right\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Continue Reading&#8230; Political Animals Trailer! Take your mind off the real thing!<\/span><a class=\"btn btn-secondary continue-reading\" href=\"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/2016\/10\/07\/political-animals-trailer-take-your-mind-off-the-real-thing\/\">Continue Reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[128],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political-animals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4140"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4141,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4140\/revisions\/4141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}