{"id":141,"date":"2014-06-23T14:30:58","date_gmt":"2014-06-23T18:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/?p=141"},"modified":"2014-08-05T23:03:23","modified_gmt":"2014-08-06T03:03:23","slug":"watch-john-oliver-makes-anti-redskins-vid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/2014\/06\/23\/watch-john-oliver-makes-anti-redskins-vid\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: John Oliver Makes His Own Anti-Redskins Vid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It really hasn&#8217;t taken John Oliver much time to transition\u00a0from\u00a0heir apparent at <em>The Daily Show<\/em> to the one of the most provocative and passionate late night hosts around. On a weekly basis, on <em>Last Week Tonight<\/em>, he has made\u00a0an art form out of\u00a0calling out\u00a0oblivious parties and corporations on their much-publicized drivel.<\/p>\n<p>Last\u00a0Sunday, he took the same enthused outraged that he used on the likes of the FCC and FIFA to highlight the absurdity of Dan Snyder and his Washington football\u00a0team&#8217;s unwillingness to change their name. Oliver\u00a0reminded audiences of a Native American tribe who ran an ad against the name\u00a0during the NBA Finals and even contributed to the cause with his own anti-R-word campaign video:<\/p>\n<p>[youtube]http:\/\/youtu.be\/AJKfs4ZnbNE[\/youtube]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It really hasn&#8217;t taken John Oliver much time to transition\u00a0from\u00a0heir apparent at The Daily Show to the one of the most provocative and passionate late night hosts around. On a weekly basis, on Last Week Tonight, he has made\u00a0an art form out of\u00a0calling out\u00a0oblivious parties and corporations on their much-publicized drivel. Last\u00a0Sunday, he took the<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/2014\/06\/23\/watch-john-oliver-makes-anti-redskins-vid\/\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":149,"featured_media":230,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,176],"tags":[92,91],"class_list":{"0":"post-141","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-television","8":"category-television-reviews","9":"tag-john-oliver","10":"tag-redskins"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/149"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}