{"id":2636,"date":"2002-07-09T09:50:21","date_gmt":"2002-07-09T08:50:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grayblog.co.uk\/?p=2636"},"modified":"2002-07-09T09:50:21","modified_gmt":"2002-07-09T08:50:21","slug":"ian-writes-about-the-other","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/ian-writes-about-the-other.htm","title":{"rendered":"Ian writes about the other"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ian writes about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iansie.com\/nonsense\/blog83a.html\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Jonathan's shirt was...um....easily noticed\">the other event<\/a> that took place on Saturday.<br \/>\nI had a conversation with a friend recently in which we discussed the way that the Union flag and the Cross of St George had been reclaimed from extremists and ultra-nationalists as a result of the Jubilee celebrations and the support for the England soccer team. For a while it seemed as if, simply waving a St George flag, you would be branded a xenophobic extremist, when of course this isn&#8217;t the case for 99.9% of people who wave such pennants. Thanks to the flag-waving of the last few months, proclaiming your English or British nationality is now a socially acceptable thing to do, which in my view is a Good Thing.<br \/>\n&quot;How is this linked to Mardi Gras?&quot; I hear you ask. Well, reading Ian&#8217;s account of the day set me thinking to the way that so many people use their heterosexuality as a badge, in the same way that xenophobes and racists have used the flag of St George as a badge (in fact, I think they are often the same individuals). That can&#8217;t be a good thing, can it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ian writes about the other event that took place on Saturday. I had a conversation with a friend recently in which we discussed the way that the Union flag and the Cross of St George had been reclaimed from extremists and ultra-nationalists as a result of the Jubilee celebrations and the support for the England [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-old-blogging"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2636\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}