{"id":11613,"date":"2011-01-28T16:39:43","date_gmt":"2011-01-28T21:39:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=11613"},"modified":"2011-01-28T16:39:43","modified_gmt":"2011-01-28T21:39:43","slug":"the-elton-john-cover-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/the-elton-john-cover-up\/","title":{"rendered":"The Elton John cover-up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pinknews.co.uk\/2011\/01\/28\/us-store-censors-eltons-magazine-cover-with-new-baby\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>:<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-11614\" title=\"magshield\" src=\"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/magshield.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A US chain store deemed a magazine cover featuring Elton John\u2019s family so offensive, it was covered to \u201cprotect\u201d young shoppers.<\/p>\n<p>The manager of the Harps store in Mountain Home, Arkansas, placed a \u201cmodesty shield\u201d over the issue of US Weekly, despite John, his civil partner David Furnish and baby Zachary all being fully clothed.<\/p>\n<p>Local resident Jennifer Huddleston took a picture of the shield and posted it on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis was taken at my local grocery store,\u2019 she wrote on the social networking site. \u201cI was shocked and horrified.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey are saying they need to keep children from seeing it, because it is a gay family.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Harps said at first that they had no opinion on the matter but  company president Kim Eskew later said the shield had been removed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn this case our store manager received some complaints and, as has  been our custom, placed the shield over the cover of the magazine,\u201d she  said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen we began receiving complaints at our corporate office, we  reviewed the magazine in question, removed the shield and are selling  the magazine in all our locations today without any shield.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur true intention is not to offend anyone in our stores and this incident happened at just one of our 65 locations, which when brought to our attention we\u00a0reversed.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The fact is, today you can barely do anything without offending someone; so you might just as well concentrate on doing a thorough job of offending someone you thoroughly disagree with.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From here: A US chain store deemed a magazine cover featuring Elton John\u2019s family so offensive, it was covered to \u201cprotect\u201d young shoppers. The manager of the Harps store in Mountain Home, Arkansas, placed a \u201cmodesty shield\u201d over the issue &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/the-elton-john-cover-up\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":2,"footnotes":""},"categories":[131],"tags":[2128,2167],"class_list":["post-11613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elton-john","tag-elton-john","tag-homosexuality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11613\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}