{"id":111899,"date":"2025-05-18T14:27:08","date_gmt":"2025-05-18T14:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/111899\/"},"modified":"2025-05-18T14:27:08","modified_gmt":"2025-05-18T14:27:08","slug":"george-clooney-vows-to-keep-fighting-uk-over-return-of-elgin-marbles-to-greece","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/111899\/","title":{"rendered":"George Clooney vows to keep fighting UK over return of Elgin Marbles to Greece"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Historically, British political reaction to returning the artefacts has been sceptical. In 2014, Boris Johnson, then Mayor of London, said \u201csomeone urgently needs to restore <a href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/topic\/george-clooney\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">George Clooney<\/a>\u2019s marbles\u201d, describing Clooney&#8217;s proposal as &#8220;advocating nothing less than the Hitlerian agenda for London\u2019s cultural treasures&#8221;. Clooney responded, describing Johnson\u2019s remarks as &#8220;too much hyperbole washed down with a few whiskies&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Historically, British political reaction to returning the artefacts has been sceptical. In 2014, Boris Johnson, then Mayor of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":111900,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7757],"tags":[748,50796,393,18558,4884,1450,257,285,50797,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-111899","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-elgin-marbles","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-george-clooney","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-greece","14":"tag-london","15":"tag-politics","16":"tag-the-british-museum","17":"tag-uk","18":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114529307418371939","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111899\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}