{"id":2188,"date":"2016-03-05T19:18:59","date_gmt":"2016-03-05T11:18:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/03\/05\/anti-establishment-morrissey-is-considering-a-run-for-mayor-of-london\/"},"modified":"2016-03-05T19:18:59","modified_gmt":"2016-03-05T11:18:59","slug":"anti-establishment-morrissey-is-considering-a-run-for-mayor-of-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/03\/05\/anti-establishment-morrissey-is-considering-a-run-for-mayor-of-london\/","title":{"rendered":"Anti-establishment Morrissey is considering a run for mayor of London"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Gettyimages-471895448\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.3.mshcdn.com\/media\/ZgkyMDE2LzAzLzA0LzU1L0dldHR5SW1hZ2VzLmYyZDkwLmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTU3NXgzMjMjCmUJanBn\/8bb4f388\/975\/GettyImages-471895448.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"float: right;width: 50px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?via=Mashable&amp;text=Anti-establishment+Morrissey+is+considering+a+run+for+mayor+of+London&amp;src=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F03%2F05%2Fmorrissey-mayor-london%2F\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-tw\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.1.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-tw-f7c0a094d16b7ee7c91a1e50839a8e00.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F03%2F05%2Fmorrissey-mayor-london%2F&amp;src=sp\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-fb\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.1.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-fb-c0a21e8841794479b8086c32c6f24ba1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>The Smiths was once the anti-establishment angst band of teenage dreams, and now they&#8217;re getting into something slightly less cool \u2014 city politics.<\/p>\n<p>Legendary frontman Morrissey just announced on his site, <a href=\"http:\/\/true-to-you.net\/morrissey_news_160304_01\">True to You<\/a>, that he was considering a run for mayor of London. Morrissey is an <a href=\"http:\/\/diffuser.fm\/morrissey-mayor-london\/\">long-time activist<\/a> in Britain&#8217;s Animal Welfare Party. According to Morrissey, the party invited him to be their candidate and he&#8217;s strongly considering it. While Morrissey doesn&#8217;t have that much experience in managing city systems, or running a powerful bureaucracy, he is very, very famous.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>SEE ALSO: <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2015\/11\/30\/j-k-rowling-fangirls-over-morrisey\/\">J. K. Rowling fangirling over Morrissey proves she&#8217;s just like the rest of us<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/03\/05\/morrissey-mayor-london\/\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>More about <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/the-smiths\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">The Smiths<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/mayor\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Mayor<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/london\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">London<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/morrissey\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Morrissey<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/watercooler\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Watercooler<\/a><br \/>\n<a href='http:\/\/ad.doubleclick.net\/jump\/mash.to\/rss;pos=atf;tag=ad;mtype=standard;type=rss;sz=300x250;ord=1457175935' target='_blank'><br \/>\n<img src='http:\/\/ad.doubleclick.net\/ad\/mash.to\/rss;pos=atf;tag=ad;mtype=standard;type=rss;sz=300x250;ord=1457175935'><br \/>\n<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Mashable\/~4\/wgZWUnGgnPk\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Smiths was once the anti-establishment angst band of teenage dreams, and now they&#8217;re getting into something slightly less cool \u2014 city politics. Legendary frontman Morrissey just announced on his site, True to You, that he was considering a run &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/03\/05\/anti-establishment-morrissey-is-considering-a-run-for-mayor-of-london\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2188\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}