{"id":552,"date":"2012-08-24T15:20:29","date_gmt":"2012-08-24T15:20:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.francisclark-lowes.co.uk\/?page_id=552"},"modified":"2022-04-07T10:52:58","modified_gmt":"2022-04-07T10:52:58","slug":"politics","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.francisclark-lowes.co.uk\/?page_id=552","title":{"rendered":"Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.francisclark-lowes.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/The-Great-Dictator.pdf\">The Great Dictator<\/a>. This is the speech at the end of Charlie Chaplin&#8217;s film which always used to make me both laugh and cry. I showed it to lots of my students who were often a bit puzzled by my emotional response to it. Recently &#8211; since 2010 or so &#8211; I&#8217;ve felt less comfortable with Chaplin&#8217;s portrayal of Hitler, but I still find this speech moving.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Great Dictator. This is the speech at the end of Charlie Chaplin&#8217;s film which always used to make me both laugh and cry. I showed it to lots of my students who were often a bit puzzled by my &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.francisclark-lowes.co.uk\/?page_id=552\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-552","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.francisclark-lowes.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.francisclark-lowes.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.francisclark-lowes.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.francisclark-lowes.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.francisclark-lowes.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=552"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.francisclark-lowes.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1788,"href":"https:\/\/www.francisclark-lowes.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/552\/revisions\/1788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.francisclark-lowes.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}