{"id":2646,"date":"2019-07-23T11:55:17","date_gmt":"2019-07-23T10:55:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/?p=2646"},"modified":"2019-07-23T11:55:17","modified_gmt":"2019-07-23T10:55:17","slug":"olly-double-referenced-in-the-financial-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/2019\/07\/23\/olly-double-referenced-in-the-financial-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Olly Double referenced in the Financial Times"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/arts\/people\/academic-staff\/double.html\">Dr Oliver\nDouble<\/a>, Reader in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/arts\/drama.html\">Department\nof Drama and Theatre<\/a>, was referenced by journalist Alan Beattie in the <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/\">Financial\nTimes<\/a><\/em> last Saturday, 20 July 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The article, entitled \u2018Calling Boris Johnson a Clown is\nUnfair to Clowns\u2019, argues that to compare the celebrity politician to a clown\ndoes a disservice to the clowning profession, which is an art form requiring\nskill and integrity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The article reports Olly\u2019s observation that \u2018Johnson has\ncarefully developed a persona as would a stand-up comic, complete with\nperformative habit of constantly dishevelling his hair. But instead of using it\nsimply to get laughs, he employs it to further his career.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To read the full article (subscription required), please see the page here:<br><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/1934b77c-a94e-11e9-984c-fac8325aaa04\">www.ft.com\/content\/1934b77c-a94e-11e9-984c-fac8325aaa04<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Oliver Double, Reader in the Department of Drama and Theatre, was referenced by journalist Alan Beattie in the Financial Times last Saturday, 20 July &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/2019\/07\/23\/olly-double-referenced-in-the-financial-times\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2458,"featured_media":2648,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[50018,124],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2646"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2458"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2646"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2647,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2646\/revisions\/2647"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}