{"id":3567,"date":"2012-03-15T15:40:00","date_gmt":"2012-03-15T20:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/2012\/03\/15\/charlie-brooker-takes-on-the-scummy-invisible-children-campaign\/"},"modified":"2015-03-23T16:37:28","modified_gmt":"2015-03-23T21:37:28","slug":"charlie-brooker-takes-on-the-scummy-invisible-children-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/2012\/03\/15\/charlie-brooker-takes-on-the-scummy-invisible-children-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"Charlie Brooker takes on the scummy invisible Children campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hF8J99KbrZo\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p>\nThat whole Invisible Children\/Kony 2012 campaign is the worst case of &#8220;what these people need is a honky&#8221; style of activism. It&#8217;s overtly simplistic, revolves more about the activists&#8217; egos than about the supposed cause they&#8217;re supporting and it all looks a lot like a scam to get money out of idealistic but gullible people. That the director of the video is an Evangelical Christian fits with the m.o.; Evangelical Christians are masters of the fake charity.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/zunguzungu.wordpress.com\/2012\/03\/10\/livetweeting-that-stopkony-video-this-morning\/\">See also<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That whole Invisible Children\/Kony 2012 campaign is the worst case of &#8220;what these people need is a honky&#8221; style of activism. It&#8217;s overtly simplistic, revolves more about the activists&#8217; egos than about the supposed cause they&#8217;re supporting and it all looks a lot like a scam to get money out of idealistic but gullible people. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[313,585,242],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-numpties","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3567"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6283,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3567\/revisions\/6283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}