{"id":49514,"date":"2026-03-28T21:15:24","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T21:15:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/offord-says-he-is-fit-to-be-first-minister-after-homophobic-joke\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T21:15:24","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T21:15:24","slug":"offord-says-he-is-fit-to-be-first-minister-after-homophobic-joke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/offord-says-he-is-fit-to-be-first-minister-after-homophobic-joke\/","title":{"rendered":"Offord says he is fit to be first minister after homophobic joke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/>Malcolm Offord denied being homophobic after apologising for a joke he made about George Michael during a Burns Night speech.<br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cgk0jpe8pgvo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Malcolm Offord denied being homophobic after apologising for a joke he made about George Michael during a Burns Night speech. Source link<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49515,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[334,9736,14051,1830,14336],"class_list":["post-49514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-fit","tag-homophobic","tag-joke","tag-minister","tag-offord"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49514"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49516,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49514\/revisions\/49516"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}