{"id":10896,"date":"2019-11-09T06:22:25","date_gmt":"2019-11-08T21:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/commentisfree\/2019\/nov\/09\/my-ok-boomer-comment-in-parliament-symbolised-exhaustion-of-multiple-generations"},"modified":"2019-11-09T06:22:25","modified_gmt":"2019-11-08T21:22:25","slug":"my-ok-boomer-comment-in-parliament-symbolised-exhaustion-of-multiple-generations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=10896","title":{"rendered":"My &#8216;ok boomer&#8217; comment in parliament symbolised exhaustion of multiple generations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For a very long time, our politics has been run by older dudes in suits \u2013 but for democracy to work it must look like all of us<\/p>\n<p>Good comedy is supposed to prompt reflection on privilege and power structures, bringing to light the unsaid. It\u2019s supposed to serve as a fuse-breaker for conversation about things we take for granted, things that we don\u2019t question about the culture and society we\u2019re deeply imbedded in.<\/p>\n<p>Baby boomers had stand-up. Gen X got the Netflix specials. Millennials made memes, and the Zoomers are reinventing humour altogether with the likes of TicTok.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/commentisfree\/2019\/nov\/09\/my-ok-boomer-comment-in-parliament-symbolised-exhaustion-of-multiple-generations\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For a very long time, our politics has been run by older dudes in suits \u2013 but for democracy to work it must look like all of usGood comedy is supposed to prompt reflection on privilege and power structures, bringing to light the unsaid. It\u2019s supposed t&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":667,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,56,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-new-zealand","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/667"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10896"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10908,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10896\/revisions\/10908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}