{"id":22419,"date":"2015-01-14T21:42:27","date_gmt":"2015-01-15T02:42:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=22419"},"modified":"2015-01-14T23:08:54","modified_gmt":"2015-01-15T04:08:54","slug":"this-little-piggy-went-to-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/this-little-piggy-went-to-market\/","title":{"rendered":"This little piggy went to market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, he used to in the nursery rhyme my parents taught me and I, in turn, my children and grandchildren. No more: the Oxford University Press has banned the use of \u201cpig\u201d, \u201cpork\u201d, \u201csausage\u201d or any other word that could cause offence to Muslims and Jews. It\u2019s as plain as a pig on a sofa that the latter category was thrown in as a decoy.<\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/uknews\/11345369\/Oxford-University-Press-bans-use-of-pig-sausage-or-pork-related-words-to-avoid-offending-Muslims.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Oxford University Press has warned its writers not to mention pigs, sausages or pork-related words in children&#8217;s books, in an apparent bid to avoid offending Jews and Muslims.<\/p>\n<p>The existence of the publisher&#8217;s guidelines emerged after a radio discussion on free speech in the wake of the Paris attacks.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, he used to in the nursery rhyme my parents taught me and I, in turn, my children and grandchildren. No more: the Oxford University Press has banned the use of \u201cpig\u201d, \u201cpork\u201d, \u201csausage\u201d or any other word that could &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/this-little-piggy-went-to-market\/\">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":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[189],"tags":[2178,1942,1940],"class_list":["post-22419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-islam","tag-islam","tag-oxford-university-press","tag-pigs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22419","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=22419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22419\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}