{"id":1479,"date":"2013-01-23T18:05:18","date_gmt":"2013-01-23T18:05:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/?p=1479"},"modified":"2013-01-23T18:13:19","modified_gmt":"2013-01-23T18:13:19","slug":"tony-benn-a-brief-history-lesson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2013\/01\/23\/tony-benn-a-brief-history-lesson\/","title":{"rendered":"Tony Benn A brief history lesson"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>This is worth 10 minutes of your time I believe.<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"300\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qX-P4mx1FLU\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is worth 10 minutes of your time I believe. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-whatever"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6NRDR-nR","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":84101,"url":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2017\/07\/02\/jack-monroe\/","url_meta":{"origin":1479,"position":0},"title":"Jack Monroe","author":"diana Stone","date":"July 2, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"OK. 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