{"id":3223,"date":"2020-01-10T17:16:52","date_gmt":"2020-01-10T17:16:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/?p=3223"},"modified":"2020-01-10T17:16:52","modified_gmt":"2020-01-10T17:16:52","slug":"alumna-laura-lexx-writes-about-brexit-for-inews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/2020\/01\/10\/alumna-laura-lexx-writes-about-brexit-for-inews\/","title":{"rendered":"Alumna Laura Lexx writes about Brexit for iNews"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alumna <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lauralexx.co.uk\/\">Laura Lexx<\/a>, who studied Drama in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/arts\/index.html\">School of Arts<\/a>, contributed an opinion piece for <em>iNews<\/em> last week about her experience of making jokes about Brexit in stand-up comedy.<\/p>\n<p>The piece, headed \u2018In all my years as a comedian I\u2019ve never encountered a subject as volatile as Brexit\u2019, was published on 2 January 2020.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018The issue with Brexit, is that the subject doesn\u2019t hover lightly,\u2019 she explains in the article. \u2018Once it\u2019s in the room most people have quickly moved to an entrenched position on it: boredom, worry, anger, defence. The majority of jump-to Brexit positions are guarded, and it\u2019s hard to laugh when your guard is up.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Laura studied an MDrama at Kent, specialising in stand-up comedy in her final year.<\/p>\n<p>To read the article, please see the <em>iNews<\/em> page here:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/inews.co.uk\/opinion\/brexit-comedian-laura-lexx-volatile-1354011\">https:\/\/inews.co.uk\/opinion\/brexit-comedian-laura-lexx-volatile-1354011<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alumna Laura Lexx, who studied Drama in the School of Arts, contributed an opinion piece for iNews last week about her experience of making jokes &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/2020\/01\/10\/alumna-laura-lexx-writes-about-brexit-for-inews\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2458,"featured_media":3224,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[807,50018,124],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3223"}],"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=3223"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3225,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3223\/revisions\/3225"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}