{"id":8436,"date":"2013-12-01T11:00:31","date_gmt":"2013-12-01T11:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/?p=8436"},"modified":"2013-11-29T11:58:05","modified_gmt":"2013-11-29T11:58:05","slug":"cherished-registrations-for-james-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/2013\/12\/cherished-registrations-for-james-a\/","title":{"rendered":"Cherished registrations for James A"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/James-Arthur-blog.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-8437\" alt=\"James Arthur blog\" src=\"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/James-Arthur-blog-300x185.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"185\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>2013 X Factor winner James Arthur has came under huge criticism in the press this week for using homophobic lyrics during one of his performances recently and following this was involved in a twitter confrontation with fellow X Factor graduate Lucy Spraggan, who challenged his behaviour. The two artists were involved in a row via text message, which Spraggan then publicised on Twitter to show the public Arthur&#8217;s attitude and opinion towards the LGBT community.<\/p>\n<p>There is now an online petition to drop James Arthur from this weekend&#8217;s celebrity line up on the X Factor, which after receiving 6,000 signatures is now gathering substantial pace. ITV have released a statement \u00a0and have backed their decision to keep James Arthur on their books for this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Both ITV and the producers of The X Factor would like to make it clear that in no way do we support, condone or share any form of homophobia or discrimination,\u2019 reads an official statement from the channel.<\/p>\n<p>A number of dismayed fans have also asked &#8216;I-Tunes&#8217; to refund them for their purchase of James Arthur&#8217;s album, which the online music store have agreed to do.<\/p>\n<p>James Arthur himself may not be in the mood for purchasing a personalised registration right now from Speedy Reg but if your name is James A now is the opportunity to get your hands on JAM 355A.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; 2013 X Factor winner James Arthur has came under huge criticism in the press this week for using homophobic lyrics during one of his performances recently and following this was involved in a twitter confrontation with fellow X Factor graduate Lucy Spraggan, who challenged his behaviour. The two artists were involved in a row [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":123457,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[139,138],"tags":[597,8],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8436"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/123457"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8436"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8446,"href":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8436\/revisions\/8446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}