{"id":13619,"date":"2014-01-16T18:37:11","date_gmt":"2014-01-17T01:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=13619"},"modified":"2014-01-16T18:37:11","modified_gmt":"2014-01-17T01:37:11","slug":"celebrity-hi-jinks-that-are-at-least-a-bit-interesting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2014\/01\/16\/celebrity-hi-jinks-that-are-at-least-a-bit-interesting\/","title":{"rendered":"celebrity hi-jinks that are at least a bit interesting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a little unclear where Shia LaBeouf is going with this.\u00c2\u00a0 Once you get marked as <a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2013\/12\/16\/shia-labeoufs-movie-plagiari.html\">stealing from Daniel Clowes<\/a>, you move on to claim that your next product is &#8230; &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2014\/01\/08\/shia-labeouf-cease-and-desist-letter_n_4561298.html\">Daniel Boring<\/a>&#8220;?<\/p>\n<p>That is a joke, right?\u00c2\u00a0 Apparently it is&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2014\/jan\/08\/shia-labeouf-daniel-clowes-plagiarism-twitter-row\">But.<\/a>..<\/p>\n<p><em>LaBeouf apologised to Clowes last month after a short film he made, Howard Cantour.com, was found to have lifted dialogue from a Clowes short story also about a world-weary film critic \u00e2\u20ac\u201c\u00c2\u00a0and his apology itself was found to have been copied.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>He&#8217;s since undermined the apologies with a string of arch tweets. He hired a skywriter to etch I Am Sorry Daniel Clowes across the Los Angeles sky, and tweeted &#8220;You have my apologies for offending you for thinking I was being serious instead of accurately realising I was mocking you&#8221;, a quote from a Texan politician amid an anti-abortion debate.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It misses the mark on its proper target.<\/p>\n<p>Looking forward to a product about alienated teenage girls called &#8220;Ghoul World&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a little unclear where Shia LaBeouf is going with this.\u00c2\u00a0 Once you get marked as stealing from Daniel Clowes, you move on to claim that your next product is &#8230; &#8220;Daniel Boring&#8220;? That is a joke, right?\u00c2\u00a0 Apparently it is&#8230; But&#8230; LaBeouf apologised to Clowes last month after a short film he made, Howard [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13619"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13620,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13619\/revisions\/13620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}