{"id":84169,"date":"2023-01-03T08:21:45","date_gmt":"2023-01-03T14:21:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=84169"},"modified":"2023-01-03T08:21:45","modified_gmt":"2023-01-03T14:21:45","slug":"cancel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=84169","title":{"rendered":"Cancel!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As a broad rule, I oppose cancelation of speech and art.  It&#8217;s a lousy precedent, and a great way to build a stupid society. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-11570103\/Couple-raise-50-000-buy-song-rights-Christmas-never-hear-Wham-hit-again.html\">there are exceptions that I can get behind<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Tomas Mazetti, 55, and wife Hannah, 33, have already raised more than \u00a350,000 to banish the song to the history books &#8211; but with the rights estimated to be worth anywhere in the region of \u00a320million they still have a long way to go&#8230;&#8221;&#8216;It started last Christmas &#8211; pun not intended &#8211; when we asked friends how much they would be willing to pay never to hear the song again.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Not since Omaha Beach has fate presented a generation with such a surpassing mission. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a broad rule, I oppose cancelation of speech and art. It&#8217;s a lousy precedent, and a great way to build a stupid society. But there are exceptions that I can get behind: Tomas Mazetti, 55, and wife Hannah, 33, have already raised more than \u00a350,000 to banish the song to the history books &#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=84169"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84170,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84169\/revisions\/84170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}