{"id":18388,"date":"2012-12-27T15:32:51","date_gmt":"2012-12-27T20:32:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=18388"},"modified":"2012-12-27T15:32:51","modified_gmt":"2012-12-27T20:32:51","slug":"piers-morgan-prime-contender-for-dowfart-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/piers-morgan-prime-contender-for-dowfart-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Piers Morgan: prime contender for dowfart of the year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>He wants to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pinknews.co.uk\/2012\/12\/27\/piers-morgan-the-bible-needs-to-be-amended-so-it-supports-same-sex-marriage\/\" target=\"_blank\">change the Bible<\/a> to make it support &#8220;gay rights&#8221;:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cMy point to you about gay rights, for example, it\u2019s time for an amendment to the Bible.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>84,000 people in his new homeland have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/yourcommunity\/2012\/12\/piers-morgan-deportation-drama-flares-within-gun-debate.html\" target=\"_blank\">signed a petition<\/a> to have him deported because of his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.upi.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/19\/Piers-Morgan-calls-pro-gun-rights-guest-Larry-Pratt-an-unbelievably-stupid-man\/9291355933600\/\" target=\"_blank\">less than well-reasoned arguments<\/a> for greater gun control:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The petition to deport U.S.-based Britishtelevision host Piers Morgan because of his stance on gun control has now collected over 80,000 signatures on the White House website &#8211; a number that far exceeds the 25,000 threshold that is supposed to trigger a government response.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He has managed to inspire the citizens of his country of birth to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-2253437\/Piers-Morgans-British-critics-launch-counter-deportation-petition-make-sure-stays-US.html\" target=\"_blank\">start a counter petition<\/a> to prevent him from returning:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Now a counter-petition has been started, asking for America to keep him \u2013 not because he\u2019s popular there but (allegedly) because no one here wants him back.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And \u2013 he is a thoroughly irritating, whiny little pipsqueak.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He wants to change the Bible to make it support &#8220;gay rights&#8221;: \u201cMy point to you about gay rights, for example, it\u2019s time for an amendment to the Bible.\u201d 84,000 people in his new homeland have signed a petition to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/piers-morgan-prime-contender-for-dowfart-of-the-year\/\">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":2,"footnotes":""},"categories":[259],"tags":[696,1231],"class_list":["post-18388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pop-culture","tag-dowfart-of-the-year-award","tag-piers-morgan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18388","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=18388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18388\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}