{"id":5457,"date":"2005-01-18T11:58:28","date_gmt":"2005-01-18T11:58:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grayblog.co.uk\/?p=5457"},"modified":"2005-01-18T11:58:28","modified_gmt":"2005-01-18T11:58:28","slug":"swastika","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/2005\/01\/18\/swastika\/","title":{"rendered":"Swastika"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/magazine\/4183467.stm\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"BBC News\">Dispassionate history of the swastika<\/a>. Useful for putting down all the fools who want to see the symbol banned &#8211; if you follow their logic, pretty much every symbol should be banned (Union Flag for British atrocities during colonialism; Stars and Stripes for American hegemony [oops &#8211; been reading Chomsky toooooo long!]; the hammer and sickle for the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan&#8230; I could go on&#8230;). It is time that nannying politicians stopped messing around at the edges and actually took steps to deal with the issues (for example &#8211; if they are so concerned about anti-Semitism, then take greater steps to improve education and tolerance, and also effectively punish those who use violence or desecration to promote such ideas).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dispassionate history of the swastika. Useful for putting down all the fools who want to see the symbol banned &#8211; if you follow their logic, pretty much every symbol should be banned (Union Flag for British atrocities during colonialism; Stars and Stripes for American hegemony [oops &#8211; been reading Chomsky toooooo long!]; the hammer and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5457\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}