{"id":921,"date":"2021-03-23T10:54:32","date_gmt":"2021-03-23T09:54:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/03\/23\/we-needed-to-rescue-the-nation-from-despair-cultures-year-of-covid\/"},"modified":"2021-03-23T10:54:32","modified_gmt":"2021-03-23T09:54:32","slug":"we-needed-to-rescue-the-nation-from-despair-cultures-year-of-covid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/03\/23\/we-needed-to-rescue-the-nation-from-despair-cultures-year-of-covid\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;We needed to rescue the nation from despair&#8217;: culture&#8217;s year of Covid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Comedians went virtual, Ai Weiwei went to Portugal \u2013 and Bake Off pledged the show would go on. In the first of a two-part series, cultural figures look back on a year that shook their industry<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/culture\/2021\/mar\/22\/optimistic-hell-yeah-stars-music-theatre-one-year-covid\">\u2018I\u2019m optimistic \u2013 hell, yeah\u2019: Part 2 of culture\u2019s year of Covid<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/culture\/2021\/mar\/21\/i-know-artists-who-may-never-work-again-cultures-year-of-covid\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/99e180be20404e6dd2e695710d3d1b7ff9e41be1\/0_0_5000_3000\/master\/5000.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=0ee95865470c70c430f9d2d857c39db1\" title=\"'We needed to rescue the nation from despair': culture's year of Covid\" \/>Comedians went virtual, Ai Weiwei went to Portugal \u2013 and Bake Off pledged the show would go on. In the first of a two-part series, cultural figures look back on a year that shook their industry<br \/>\n\u2018I\u2019m optimistic \u2013 hell, yeah\u2019: Part 2 of culture\u2019s year of Covid<br \/>\nContinue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comedians went virtual, Ai Weiwei went to Portugal \u2013 and Bake Off pledged the show would go on. In the first of a two-part series, cultural figures look back on a year that shook their industry \u2018I\u2019m optimistic \u2013 hell, yeah\u2019: Part 2 of culture\u2019s year of Covid Continue reading&#8230; Comedians went virtual, Ai Weiwei &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/03\/23\/we-needed-to-rescue-the-nation-from-despair-cultures-year-of-covid\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8216;We needed to rescue the nation from despair&#8217;: culture&#8217;s year of Covid<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":922,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}