{"id":122848,"date":"2025-11-05T08:43:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T08:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/122848\/"},"modified":"2025-11-05T08:43:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T08:43:09","slug":"donal-lynch-britney-spears-like-sinead-oconnor-has-earned-the-benefit-of-the-doubt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/122848\/","title":{"rendered":"D\u00f3nal Lynch: Britney Spears, like Sin\u00e9ad O\u2019Connor, has earned the benefit of the doubt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Vulture<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Britney Spears and Kevin Federline in those proverbial 'happier times' of 2004. Photo: Getty\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/8912da53-4d0e-42d8-846d-6ae2409d8b57.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Britney Spears and Kevin Federline in those proverbial &#8216;happier times&#8217; of 2004. Photo: Getty<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">In an ordinary month we might be very much \u201chere\u201d for the tell-all memoir of a celebrity ex-spouse.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">If, say, Nicole Kidman wanted to violate a nuclear-grade NDA and unleash the furies of Scientology upon herself by giving us the skinny on Tom Cruise, it would be a publishing deal we could get behind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Vulture Britney Spears and Kevin Federline in those proverbial &#8216;happier times&#8217; of 2004. Photo: Getty In an ordinary&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":122849,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[667,321,29575,93,61,60,6992,18097],"class_list":["post-122848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-britney-spears","tag-celebrities","tag-donal-lynch","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-people-culture-magazine","tag-sinead-oconnor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122848\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}