{"id":41486,"date":"2018-12-09T09:43:04","date_gmt":"2018-12-09T14:43:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=41486"},"modified":"2018-12-09T09:43:04","modified_gmt":"2018-12-09T14:43:04","slug":"fairytales-and-snowflakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=41486","title":{"rendered":"Fairytales and Snowflakes"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"post-header title-container fix\">\n<div class=\"title\">\n<h3 class=\"posttitle\"><a class=\"entry-title\" title=\"Fairytales and Snowflakes\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theautomaticearth.com\/2018\/12\/fairytales-and-snowflakes\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Fairytales and Snowflakes<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"entry-container fix\">\n<div class=\"entry fix\"><center><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bathsheba_at_Her_Bath_(Rembrandt)\" target=\"new\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/3r8md7174doo44lgpk3kou79-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/RembrandtBathsheba1654.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<b><\/b><\/center><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Rembrandt van Rijn <b>Bathsheba at her bath <\/b>1654 (see video at the bottom)<\/p>\n<p>There are not many things that I\u2019m allergic to. But there are some. Here\u2019s a good example: bigotry. Behold, in the article quoted below, the danger of political correctness in all its glory. A 30-year old Christmas song, Fairytale of New York, it is claimed, must be censored or banned. For a reason I\u2019ll explain, such things always make me think of Rembrandt\u2019s painting \u201cBathsheba at her Bath\u201d (the painting above), which hangs in the Louvre.<\/p>\n<p>No doubt there are those who are offended by her nakedness. But as John Berger put it in the video below, the master painted it with the utmost love and devotion. I first saw the video many years ago in art school, and it\u2019s always stayed with me. Berger was a British art critic (he died last year) who wrote many books and made lots of TV shows on his view of what makes art \u2013 and its viewers- tick, together. Berger loved Rembrandt as much as Rembrandt loved Bathsheba. And so do I.<\/p>\n<p>Back to the song, Fairytale of New York: There are people who think\/feel\/proclaim that the perhaps most popular Christmas song of the modern age contains one word they do not like, and must therefore be changed. It hurts their safe space, or something. It\u2019s not politically correct. You can\u2019t say \u2018faggot\u2019, even after it\u2019s thoroughly explained to you that it means something else entirely in older Irish vocabulary. This is a very dark road towards a very dark future; don\u2019t go there.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fairytales and Snowflakes Rembrandt van Rijn Bathsheba at her bath 1654 (see video at the bottom) There are not many things that I\u2019m allergic to. But there are some. Here\u2019s a good example: bigotry. Behold, in the article quoted below, the danger of political correctness in all its glory. A 30-year old Christmas song, Fairytale [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[23413,23414,23415,23416,23417,23418,22247,23419,23420,13924,23421,23422,23423,5177],"class_list":["post-41486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-bathsheba","tag-bigotry","tag-fairytale-of-new-york","tag-fuck","tag-john-berger","tag-kirsty-maccoll","tag-naked","tag-parthenon","tag-pogues","tag-raul-ilargi-meijer","tag-rembrandt","tag-shane-mcgowan","tag-snowflakes","tag-the-automatic-earth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41486"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41487,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41486\/revisions\/41487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}