{"id":6388,"date":"2013-05-17T14:56:06","date_gmt":"2013-05-17T18:56:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/?p=6388"},"modified":"2013-05-18T14:40:30","modified_gmt":"2013-05-18T18:40:30","slug":"can-a-royal-party-boy-really-change-his-stripes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2013\/05\/can-a-royal-party-boy-really-change-his-stripes.html","title":{"rendered":"Can a Royal Party Boy Really Change His Stripes?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So how do you, in the words of Heathcote Williams, &#8220;turn a plutocratic oaf into a lovable national treasure instead of a casually racist and unthinking parasite&#8221;? With difficulty. Unless you can get the press behind you and send Prince Harry on an American tour.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wLP5f4knnLI\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Trouble is, during Harry&#8217;s former deployment in Afghanistan, as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stopwar.org.uk\/index.php\/the-trouble-with-prince-harry-naughty-boy-peddling-war-propaganda\">Williams points out in the video<\/a> posted by &#8220;Stop the War Coalition,&#8221; the so-called warrior prince slaughtered 34 Afghanis in a remote control air attack and was &#8220;then thought to have boasted of it&#8221; at a London night club. Some people who recall <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=T2NpM6WQeOc\">Harry&#8217;s swastika armband<\/a> from years ago might even think, hmmmmph, all the royal party boy did was change his uniform but not his stripes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So how do you, in the words of Heathcote Williams, &#8220;turn a plutocratic oaf into a lovable national treasure instead of a casually racist and unthinking parasite&#8221;? With difficulty. Unless you can get the press behind you and send Prince Harry on an American tour. Trouble is, during Harry&#8217;s former deployment in Afghanistan, as Williams [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[20,17],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6388","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-media","7":"category-political-culture","8":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-1F2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6388\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}