{"id":127435,"date":"2020-01-12T14:24:50","date_gmt":"2020-01-12T13:24:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2020\/01\/12\/festival-of-brexit-boss-says-120m-event-will-prove-the-cynics-wrong\/"},"modified":"2020-01-12T14:24:50","modified_gmt":"2020-01-12T13:24:50","slug":"festival-of-brexit-boss-says-120m-event-will-prove-the-cynics-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=127435","title":{"rendered":"&#039;Festival of Brexit&#039; boss says \u00a3120m event will prove the cynics wrong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Martin Green vows to bring nation together with \u2018a bit of joy and hope and happiness\u2019 It has been mocked and pilloried as a \u201cfestival of Brexit\u201d, but the newly appointed boss of the \u00a3120m nationwide celebration planned for 2022 has said he is going to embrace the cynics \u2013 and prove them wrong.In his first interview as the director of Festival 2022, Martin Green said the aims would be to bring the nation together, showcase British creativity and on a basic level bring some \u201cjoy, hope and happiness\u201d. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2020\/jan\/12\/festival-of-brexit-boss-120m-event-will-prove-cynics-wrong-martin-green\" target=\"_blank\">&#039;Festival of Brexit&#039; boss says \u00a3120m event will prove the cynics wrong<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Martin Green vows to bring nation together with \u2018a bit of joy and hope and happiness\u2019 It has been mocked and pilloried as a \u201cfestival of Brexit\u201d, but the newly appointed boss of the \u00a3120m nationwide celebration planned for 2022 has said he is going to embrace the cynics \u2013 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=127435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127435\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=127435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=127435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=127435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}