{"id":13292,"date":"2023-11-06T10:25:43","date_gmt":"2023-11-06T10:25:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/?p=13292"},"modified":"2023-11-08T12:47:21","modified_gmt":"2023-11-08T12:47:21","slug":"a-dedication","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/?p=13292","title":{"rendered":"A dedication"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2023\/11\/Suella_Braverman_Official_Cabinet_Portrait_September_2022_cropped-e1699447384431.jpg\" alt=\"Cruella Braverman courtesy of Wikimedia Commons\" width=\"119\" height=\"159\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-13305\" \/>Given the alleged <a href=\"https:\/\/www.itv.com\/news\/2023-11-04\/braverman-says-rough-sleeping-is-lifestyle-choice-amid-street-tents-crackdown\">home secretary&#8217;s widely reported, callous and ill-conceived remarks<\/a> that homeless people living in tents was a &#8216;<em>lifestyle choice<\/em>&#8216;, this blog thought it only appropriate to come up with a musical response to the latest vile political utterance spouted by this amateur human being.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>So here&#8217;s a dedication to Cruella Braverman from 1969, long before her assumed conception, courtesy of the wonderfully anarchic <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bonzo_Dog_Doo-Dah_Band\">Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band<\/a>, also known affectionately as the Bonzos.<\/p>\r\n <br \/>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"epyt-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto;\"  id=\"_ytid_48821\"  width=\"600\" height=\"450\"  data-origwidth=\"600\" data-origheight=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EeYowOW648M?enablejsapi=1&autoplay=0&cc_load_policy=0&cc_lang_pref=&iv_load_policy=1&loop=0&rel=0&fs=1&playsinline=0&autohide=2&theme=dark&color=red&controls=1&disablekb=0&\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  no-lazyload\" title=\"Tent (2007 Remaster)\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div>\r\n\r\n<br \/>\r\n<p>And if you&#8217;d like to sing along, Ms Braverman, here&#8217;s a <a href=\"https:\/\/genius.com\/Bonzo-dog-doo-dah-band-tent-lyrics\">link to the lyrics<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Finally, beware the saxophone solo,#; it&#8217;ll strip paint off your walls!<\/p> ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Given the alleged home secretary&#8217;s widely reported, callous and ill-conceived remarks that homeless people living in tents was a &#8216;lifestyle choice&#8216;, this blog thought it only appropriate to come up with a musical response to the latest vile political utterance spouted by this amateur human being. So here&#8217;s a dedication to Cruella Braverman from 1969, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,15],"tags":[36,16,22,20],"class_list":["post-13292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-translation-and-language-related-matters","category-politics","tag-comment","tag-english-usage","tag-language","tag-politics-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13292"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13314,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13292\/revisions\/13314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}