{"id":951,"date":"2011-07-23T09:56:26","date_gmt":"2011-07-23T08:56:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/?p=951"},"modified":"2011-07-23T09:56:26","modified_gmt":"2011-07-23T08:56:26","slug":"aussiemandias-shelley-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/?p=951","title":{"rendered":"Aussiemandias? Shelley not!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Who does &#8216;the shattered visage&#8217;, with its frown, its wrinkled lip and its sneer of cold command, remind you of? Yes, Rupert Murdoch is finding out that one of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bartleby.com\/27\/23.html\" title=\"Shelley's Defence of Poetry\" target=\"_blank\">the unacknowledged legislators of the world<\/a> had described his fate long ago, as Simon Hoggart points out in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/theguardian\/2011\/jul\/22\/simon-hoggart-week-murdoch-empire\" title=\"Hoggart on Murdoch\" target=\"_blank\">today&#8217;s Guardian<\/a>:  <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It&#8217;s as if we were all in Shelley&#8217;s antique land watching the statue of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ozymandias\" title=\"Text and background about Ozymandias on Wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\">Ozymandias<\/a> collapse before our eyes.&#8217;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Or, in the word of a succinct <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/media\/2011\/jul\/22\/public-interest-and-the-press\" title=\"Aussiemandias\" target=\"_blank\">letter a few pages later<\/a> from Alasdair McKee:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Aussiemandias<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Murdoch Murdoch: Shelley got there first<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3],"tags":[130,75],"class_list":["post-951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","category-words","tag-murdoch","tag-shelley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=951"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":957,"href":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951\/revisions\/957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}