{"id":419,"date":"2006-02-25T15:30:39","date_gmt":"2006-02-25T21:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/?p=419"},"modified":"2006-02-25T15:50:07","modified_gmt":"2006-02-25T21:50:07","slug":"methodists-use-same-logic-as-radical-islamists-boycott-richmond-va","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/2006\/02\/methodists-use-same-logic-as-radical-islamists-boycott-richmond-va\/","title":{"rendered":"Methodists use same logic as radical Islamists, boycott Richmond, VA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.upi.com\/NewsTrack\/view.php?StoryID=20060225-011627-5185r\">Methodists object to Richmond Braves<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Virginia&#8217;s capital has lost the 2012 United Methodist international conference because it is home to a minor league baseball team named the Braves.<br \/>\n[&#8230;]<br \/>\nKenneth Branham, chief of the Monacan Nation, which is based near Lynchburg, Va., told the [Washington] Times that he has no problem with the Richmond Braves. The team&#8217;s mascot is a talking duck.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The mascot thing has been blown out of proportion,&#8221; he said. &#8220;The problem is not that teams have American Indian names and mascots, but how those mascots act.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>OK, so a private enterprise has a mascot that is ostensibly offensive to Native Americans (even though a Native American representative says it isn&#8217;t), and so they are going to move their convention to another city.<\/p>\n<p>THE CITY DIDN&#8217;T NAME THE TEAM, PEOPLE!  Geez.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Methodists object to Richmond Braves Virginia&#8217;s capital has lost the 2012 United Methodist international conference because it is home to a minor league baseball team<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":647,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pekNN-6L","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/647"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}