{"id":2689,"date":"2013-08-07T09:02:00","date_gmt":"2013-08-07T08:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.briangreene.com\/bhg\/?p=2689"},"modified":"2013-08-07T09:02:00","modified_gmt":"2013-08-07T08:02:00","slug":"red-or-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/2013\/red-or-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"red or dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2013\/aug\/03\/red-or-dead-david-peace-review\">Guardian review<\/a> of the new book from David Peace &#8220;Red or Dead&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>For of all the forms of love there are in this world there is none so cruelly, gleefully unrequited as the love of a fan for a Premier League club. Fans will go to the grave decked in club scarves, the club anthem their eternal ringtone. <strong>Clubs reciprocate that love in ways that make Enron look like the Salvation Army<\/strong>. The Premier League is not a metaphor of a dysfunctional society, it is its fullest expression \u2013 a grotesquely overpaid, underperforming elite utterly disconnected from the communities from which its clubs take their names.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rHrp8A3dYOk?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from the Guardian review of the new book from David Peace &#8220;Red or Dead&#8221; For of all the forms of love there are in this world there is none so cruelly, gleefully unrequited as the love of a fan for a Premier League club. Fans will go to the grave decked in club scarves, the&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/2013\/red-or-dead\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">red or dead<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2689"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2690,"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2689\/revisions\/2690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}