{"id":36,"date":"2005-06-30T11:17:00","date_gmt":"2005-06-30T18:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/mischievous-character\/"},"modified":"2005-06-30T11:17:00","modified_gmt":"2005-06-30T18:17:00","slug":"mischievous-character","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2005\/06\/30\/mischievous-character\/","title":{"rendered":"Mischievous character"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remember when we talked about <a href=\"http:\/\/preposterousuniverse.blogspot.com\/2005_03_01_preposterousuniverse_archive.html#111198326970185488\">Chief Illiniwek<\/a>, the University of Illinois mascot? The Chief&#8217;s supporters claim that it&#8217;s really a gesture of respect to have a student dress up in war paint and do silly dances &#8212; a matter of honoring the bravery of Native Americans. Notice any similarity to the explanations coming from <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20050629\/ap_on_re_la_am_ca\/mexico_stamp_controversy\">Mexico<\/a> these days?<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/images\/meminpinguin.jpg\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember when we talked about Chief Illiniwek, the University of Illinois mascot? The Chief&#8217;s supporters claim that it&#8217;s really a gesture of respect to have a student dress up in war paint and do silly dances &#8212; a matter of honoring the bravery of Native Americans. Notice any similarity to the explanations coming from Mexico [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellany"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}