{"id":21284,"date":"2020-05-17T14:17:04","date_gmt":"2020-05-17T14:17:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=21284"},"modified":"2020-05-17T14:17:04","modified_gmt":"2020-05-17T14:17:04","slug":"edwina-currie-a-former-health-minister-once-said-good-christian-people-dont-get-aids-now-shes-on-tv-giving-coronavirus-advice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2020\/05\/17\/edwina-currie-a-former-health-minister-once-said-good-christian-people-dont-get-aids-now-shes-on-tv-giving-coronavirus-advice\/","title":{"rendered":"Edwina Currie, a former health minister, once said \u2018good Christian people\u2019 don\u2019t get AIDS. Now she\u2019s on TV giving coronavirus advice"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/s31242.pcdn.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Screenshot-2020-05-12-at-11.30.28-768x377.png\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" alt=\"Former Conservative Party lawmaker Edwina Currie sparred with Good Morning Britain hosts over coronavirus guidelines. (Screen capture via ITV)\" width=\"1024\" height=\"503\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"pn-single-post-wrapper__caption\"><span style=\"display: inline !important; float: none; background-color: #ffffff; color: #303030; font-family: Averta,'sans-serif'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 30px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;\">Currie appeared on <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.itv.com\/goodmorningbritain\"><em>Good Morning Britain<\/em><\/a><span style=\"display: inline !important; float: none; background-color: #ffffff; color: #303030; font-family: Averta,'sans-serif'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 30px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;\"> via video uplink and accused Morgan and Reid of failing to read the government\u2019s plan properly and not having \u201cBritish common sense\u201d.<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/Currie appeared on Good Morning Britain via video uplink and accused Morgan and Reid of failing to read the government\u2019s plan properly and not having \u201cBritish common sense\u201d.\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"pn-single-post-wrapper__content-main\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Currie appeared on Good Morning Britain via video uplink and accused Morgan and Reid of failing to read the government\u2019s plan properly&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-21284","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-hiv"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21284"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21285,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21284\/revisions\/21285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}