{"id":1149890,"date":"2026-08-15T11:05:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T11:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1149890\/"},"modified":"2026-08-15T11:05:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T11:05:15","slug":"amanda-knox-at-edinburgh-fringe-her-show-cartwheel-sparks-debate-over-comedy-and-serious-subjects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1149890\/","title":{"rendered":"Amanda Knox at Edinburgh Fringe: Her show Cartwheel sparks debate over comedy and serious subjects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The real mistake, however, is not that she is performing a show at the Fringe, but that the show, entitled Cartwheel, is billed as a  comedy. It is in the comedy section of the programme and the press notes talk about Knox&#8217;s current career in stand-up comedy. But while it is punctuated by laughs, the show is essentially a spoken word monologue. And at times a compelling and moving one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The real mistake, however, is not that she is performing a show at the Fringe, but that the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1149891,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[8816],"tags":[261729,748,312729,312728,1102,56777,4884,712,16,15],"class_list":["post-1149890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-edinburgh","tag-amanda-knox","tag-britain","tag-bruce-dessau","tag-comedy-reviews","tag-edinburgh","tag-edinburgh-fringe","tag-great-britain","tag-scotland","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/117099202128037588","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1149890","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=1149890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1149890\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1149891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1149890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1149890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1149890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}