{"id":1080,"date":"2007-10-07T19:32:20","date_gmt":"2007-10-07T18:32:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/?p=1080"},"modified":"2007-10-07T19:32:20","modified_gmt":"2007-10-07T18:32:20","slug":"one-nil-in-the-class-struggle-jimmy-responds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/2007\/10\/one-nil-in-the-class-struggle-jimmy-responds\/","title":{"rendered":"one nil in the class war &#8211; Jimmy responds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/b.jpg\" alt=\"Jimmy Cliff\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;One of my band mates called me this morning to tell me the news. I can&#8217;t stop them using the song, but I&#8217;m not a supporter of politics. I have heard of Cameron, but I&#8217;m not a supporter. I don&#8217;t support any politician. I just believe in right or wrong.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve never voted in my life. But I&#8217;m from the lower class of society and I tend to support them rather than the upper class. It&#8217;s not that I don&#8217;t have friends or family in the upper classes \u2013 I do \u2013 but I always prefer to support the lower classes.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.independent.co.uk\/uk\/politics\/article3033331.ece\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"postlink\">http:\/\/news.independent.co.uk\/uk\/politics\/article3033331.ece<\/a><\/p>\n<p>(thanks to Ian on the blood and fire board for the link)<\/p>\n<p>So that&#8217;s one in the eye for old Etonians who think that class is irrelevant, I think.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/observer.guardian.co.uk\/7days\/story\/0,,2185495,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">This article<\/a> in the Observer points out that use of the song without permission from the publisher could get the Tories in hot (and costly) water.<\/p>\n<p>Jimmy Cliff&#8217;s official site is here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jimmycliff.com\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.jimmycliff.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;One of my band mates called me this morning to tell me the news. I can&#8217;t stop them using the song, but I&#8217;m not a supporter of politics. I have heard of Cameron, but I&#8217;m not a supporter. I don&#8217;t support any politician. I just believe in right or wrong. I&#8217;ve never voted in my &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/2007\/10\/one-nil-in-the-class-struggle-jimmy-responds\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;one nil in the class war &#8211; Jimmy responds&rsquo; &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politricks","category-reggae"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1080\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}