{"id":311,"date":"2014-11-10T09:49:38","date_gmt":"2014-11-10T09:49:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fleeting.eu:8080\/wordpress\/?p=311"},"modified":"2014-11-10T09:49:38","modified_gmt":"2014-11-10T09:49:38","slug":"pringle-and-poppies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gravityisahat.co.uk\/index.php\/pringle-and-poppies\/","title":{"rendered":"Pringle and poppies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gravityisahat.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/pring.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-312\" src=\"https:\/\/gravityisahat.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/pring.jpg\" alt=\"pring\" width=\"150\" height=\"210\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/gravityisahat.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/pop.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-313\" src=\"https:\/\/gravityisahat.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/pop-300x180.jpg\" alt=\"pop\" width=\"300\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gravityisahat.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/pop-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gravityisahat.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/pop.jpg 460w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Who else finds the rush to be seen wearing a poppy on Remembrance Day a bit nauseating? It has become one of the great British taboos not to be seen wearing one. For a TV presenter or a politician not to be seen \u2018poppied\u2019 is probably a sackable offence. It reminds me a bit of a \u2018Pringle\u2019 label; something you had have to have in the 70\u2019s if you were going to be allowed to buy a drink at the golf club member\u2019s bar (no offence A &amp; M). The fatuous, sentimental nonsense spouted by some of the media and most vox popped citizens has turned the whole event into a group \u2018cry in.\u2019 If I hear one more out of tune last post echoing over the airways I will scream. The competition to find a hero in the family who \u2018was in the trenches\u2019 \u2013 flash the picture up on Facebook and wait for the surge of reflected glory to anoint the descendants of said hero is pathetic.<\/p>\n<p>We now know the First World War killing methods were ghastly, terrible, shit (It\u2019s hardly a startling revelation to discover that War is bad) \u2013 we do this objective acknowledgement no favours by turning it into a state sponsored myth machine fronted by a cool brand that certainly encourages nationalism and arguably militarism. Soldiers don\u2019t die for Queen and country they die because they were unlucky enough to be in wrong place at the wrong time. Their tragic, futile deaths are the result of a societal disregard for common sense. A delusion that things can be fixed by lobbing bombs about. Surely with the combined brainpower of the great women and men of the world we can make the compulsory poppy party a thing of the past (where it belongs).<\/p>\n<p>Church\/state\/military sponsored symbols encourage simple minded sentiments \u2013 get rid of them all! and that should also include our ridiculous monarchy (no office ER &amp; P).<\/p>\n<p>Now if anti-god posts don\u2019t get you going anti-poppy posts might. Let the wave of hatred wash over me.<\/p>\n<p>Love and peace xxx<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who else finds the rush to be seen wearing a poppy on Remembrance Day a bit nauseating? It has become one of the great British taboos not to be seen wearing one. For a TV presenter or a politician not to be seen \u2018poppied\u2019 is probably a sackable offence. It reminds me a bit of [&hellip;]<\/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":["post-311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-everything-else"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gravityisahat.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gravityisahat.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gravityisahat.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gravityisahat.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gravityisahat.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gravityisahat.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gravityisahat.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gravityisahat.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gravityisahat.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}