{"id":40,"date":"2006-07-11T22:32:11","date_gmt":"2006-07-11T22:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.innerhippy.com\/?p=40"},"modified":"2012-06-05T08:18:30","modified_gmt":"2012-06-05T08:18:30","slug":"hug-a-hoodie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.innerhippy.com\/?p=40","title":{"rendered":"Hug a Hoodie?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#039;ve been pondering this Hug-a-Hoodie message from David Cameron ever since the media picked up on it a few days ago. I can see that it&#039;s a case of social inclusion and that all they want to do is blend in with us and not be stigmatised just by what they wear. Fair enough.<\/p>\n<p>Well as it happened, I was lucky enough to find myself in a situation only last night when I could put this to the test. One of these so-called teenager &quot;hoodies&quot; decided to attack me for no apparent reason, which left me with a very upset girlfriend, a broken nose and about 2 litres less blood. Oh silly me, if only I&#039;d hugged him instead! But my problem is one of timing: when exactly should I attempt this hug? Should it have been as he was insulting me? Or maybe just before the punch to my face, or perhaps just afterwards? Obviously the young fellow wasn&#039;t aware of my intentions to give him a loving hug, otherwise I&#039;m sure he would have just left us both alone.<\/p>\n<p>I could really do without being punched again over a simple misunderstanding. But you know what, I&#039;m just not sure that Hugging a Hoodie is really for me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#039;ve been pondering this Hug-a-Hoodie message from David Cameron ever since the media picked up on it a few days ago. I can see that it&#039;s a case of social inclusion and that all they want to do is blend in with us and not be stigmatised just by what they wear. Fair enough. Well [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.innerhippy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.innerhippy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.innerhippy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.innerhippy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.innerhippy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.innerhippy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":399,"href":"https:\/\/blog.innerhippy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions\/399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.innerhippy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.innerhippy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.innerhippy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}