{"id":367,"date":"2007-06-27T13:56:32","date_gmt":"2007-06-27T13:56:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/?p=367"},"modified":"2008-01-04T12:36:38","modified_gmt":"2008-01-04T02:36:38","slug":"search-for-a-scapegoat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/2007\/06\/27\/search-for-a-scapegoat\/","title":{"rendered":"Search for a Scapegoat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=kNI-68MATxI&amp;mode=related&amp;search=\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spiritsdancing.typepad.com\/photos\/uncategorized\/2007\/06\/26\/notsorry.jpg\" title=\"Notsorry\" alt=\"Notsorry\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve <a href=\"http:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/2007\/04\/09\/once-upon-a-coffee-cup\/\">written previously<\/a> about <a href=\"http:\/\/myspace.com\/killerspud1\">Shan Jayaweera&#8217;s<\/a> John Howard puppetry satires. Now <span id=\"vidDescRemain\" style=\"display: inline\">with an election looming later in the year, &#8216;Australian Prime Minister John Howard needs to find something<br \/>\nnew to blame and scare the voters into voting for him&#8217;. <\/span>Follow his efforts in a welcome new series, <em>John Howard &#8211; Search for a Scapegoat:<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=G5rT97LGmtw\">Episode 1<\/a>: <span id=\"vidDescRemain\" style=\"display: inline\">Howard looks at former grand Mufti Sheik Taj el din al Hilali.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=kNI-68MATxI&amp;mode=related&amp;search=\">Episode 2<\/a>: <span id=\"vidDescRemain\" style=\"display: inline\">John Howard goes into the music world to find two potential scapegoats to help him win the next election. There is also an advertisement for the latest Liberal Party<br \/>\nReception centre. <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve written previously about Shan Jayaweera&#8217;s John Howard puppetry satires. Now with an election looming later in the year, &#8216;Australian Prime Minister John Howard needs to find something new to blame and scare the voters into voting for him&#8217;. Follow his efforts in a welcome new series, John Howard &#8211; Search for a Scapegoat: Episode [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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}},"categories":[7,4,14,17],"tags":[40,1358,1355,1365,41,1368],"class_list":["post-367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-puppetry","category-puppets","category-video","tag-john-howard","tag-politics","tag-puppetry","tag-puppets","tag-shan-jayaweera","tag-video"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paZhI-5V","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}