{"id":45,"date":"2006-11-28T22:42:49","date_gmt":"2006-11-28T22:42:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.innerhippy.com\/?p=45"},"modified":"2012-06-05T08:18:30","modified_gmt":"2012-06-05T08:18:30","slug":"headless-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.innerhippy.com\/?p=45","title":{"rendered":"Headless news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today, 140 police and staff in the UK were reprimanded over an email.<\/p>\n<p>This email showed footage from the US showing a man being decapitated on some railings after a pursuit by the police.<\/p>\n<p>The reason for the reprimand was, as a senior officer said, &quot;the image could be perceived as racist and offensive.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>The man being decapitated was, in fact, black.<\/p>\n<p>What?<\/p>\n<p>Has the world gone utterly mad? I don&#039;t particularly care what colour the unfortunate person is, but I do have an issue with the fact that he&#039;s getting his head chopped off!<\/p>\n<p>Why are the police making this an issue of racism? Does political correctness veto good taste? Would we have 140 slapped wrists if it was only a whitey being lynched? <\/p>\n<p>Something&#039;s gone horribly wrong somewhere&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, 140 police and staff in the UK were reprimanded over an email. This email showed footage from the US showing a man being decapitated on some railings after a pursuit by the police. The reason for the reprimand was, as a senior officer said, &quot;the image could be perceived as racist and offensive.&quot; The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.innerhippy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45"}],"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=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.innerhippy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":394,"href":"https:\/\/blog.innerhippy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions\/394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.innerhippy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.innerhippy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.innerhippy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}