{"id":280,"date":"2007-03-18T06:58:41","date_gmt":"2007-03-18T11:58:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2007\/03\/18\/the-proper-way-to-hang-a-confederate-flag\/"},"modified":"2007-03-22T07:59:33","modified_gmt":"2007-03-22T12:59:33","slug":"the-proper-way-to-hang-a-confederate-flag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2007\/03\/18\/the-proper-way-to-hang-a-confederate-flag\/","title":{"rendered":"The Proper Way To Hang a Confederate Flag"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20070317\/ap_on_re_us\/confederate_flag\">Irony abounds<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> [Robert] Hurst walked into the Mary Brogan Museum of Art and Science this past week and saw an exhibit by [artist John] Sims, including a Confederate flag hung from a noose on a 13-foot gallows in a display titled &#8220;The Proper Way to Hang a Confederate Flag.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hurst asked the museum to remove the display, along with 13 other pieces by Sims.<\/p>\n<p>[ . . . ]<\/p>\n<p>Hurst, commander of the local Sons of Confederate Veterans chapter, said Friday he has lost respect for the museum, calling the display of Sims&#8217; work &#8220;offensive, objectionable and tasteless.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Perfect, really.  Just <em>perfect<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update<\/strong>: Welcome, all.  I go out for a run and come back to an avalanche. Click <a href=\"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/\">here<\/a> for the main page.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Further update<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20070317\/ap_on_re_us\/confederate_flag\">a picture<\/a> of what&#8217;s causing all the uproar.  Also, if anyone wants to see what just kind of ugly it is attacking this art, check out the comments.   Really quite lovely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Irony abounds: [Robert] Hurst walked into the Mary Brogan Museum of Art and Science this past week and saw an exhibit by [artist John] Sims, including a Confederate flag hung from a noose on a 13-foot gallows in a display titled &#8220;The Proper Way to Hang a Confederate Flag.&#8221; Hurst asked the museum to remove [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-society"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}