{"id":1021,"date":"2008-11-24T20:12:51","date_gmt":"2008-11-25T00:12:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anglicansamizdat.wordpress.com\/?p=1021"},"modified":"2008-11-24T20:12:51","modified_gmt":"2008-11-25T00:12:51","slug":"the-crying-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/the-crying-game\/","title":{"rendered":"The Crying Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Boy George, the shallow yet not pathologically stupid, musically interesting, 80&#8217;s <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/i\/pix\/2008\/11\/24\/article-0-02939DC5000005DC-761_468x569.jpg\" alt=\"Add an Image\" width=\"234\" height=\"270\" \/>precursor to much that has gone wrong subsequently androgyne had the dubious distinction of being named <span> <\/span>the best dressed man <em>and <\/em>the best dressed woman in the same year. When, in his youth, he was asked what he would look like in his <span> <\/span>40\u2019s, he said \u2018ugly probably\u2019. He was right.<br \/>\nFrom <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-1088903\/I-chained-wall-beaten-evil-Boy-George-claims-male-escort.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Boy George chained up a male escort and beat him in a revenge attack, a court heard.<br \/>\nAudun Carlsen, 29, told how the former Culture Club singer pinned him to the floor of his bedroom, beat him up, swore at him, then handcuffed him to a hook next to his bed.<br \/>\nGeorge produced a box of sex toys, chains and leather straps but the escort, originally from Norway, managed to pull his hand free and ran for the door.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boy George, the shallow yet not pathologically stupid, musically interesting, 80&#8217;s precursor to much that has gone wrong subsequently androgyne had the dubious distinction of being named the best dressed man and the best dressed woman in the same year. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/the-crying-game\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":12,"footnotes":""},"categories":[94,307],"tags":[2267],"class_list":["post-1021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daft","category-the-fall-of-the-west","tag-the-fall-of-the-west"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}