{"id":12776,"date":"2017-10-28T15:53:48","date_gmt":"2017-10-28T13:53:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2017\/10\/28\/gove-sparks-outcry-for-weinstein-joke-that-trivialises-sexual-assault\/"},"modified":"2017-10-28T15:53:48","modified_gmt":"2017-10-28T13:53:48","slug":"gove-sparks-outcry-for-weinstein-joke-that-trivialises-sexual-assault","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=12776","title":{"rendered":"Gove sparks outcry for Weinstein joke that &#039;trivialises sexual assault&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MP criticised for comparing Today programme interview with John Humphrys to entering the film producer\u2019s bedroomMichael Gove has apologised following an outcry over an ill-judged joke comparing tough interviews on BBC Radio 4\u2019s Today programme to going into Harvey Weinstein\u2019s bedroom.The environment secretary said his \u201cclumsy attempt at humour &#8230; wasn\u2019t appropriate. I\u2019m sorry and apologise unreservedly.\u201d Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/oct\/28\/michael-gove-apologises-clumsy-harvey-weinstein-joke-today-show\" target=\"_blank\">Gove sparks outcry for Weinstein joke that &#039;trivialises sexual assault&#039;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MP criticised for comparing Today programme interview with John Humphrys to entering the film producer\u2019s bedroomMichael Gove has apologised following an outcry over an ill-judged joke comparing tough interviews on BBC Radio 4\u2019s Today programme to going into Harvey Weinstein\u2019s bedroom.The environment secretary said his \u201cclumsy attempt at humour &#8230; [&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-12776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12776","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=12776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12776\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}