{"id":1550,"date":"2005-05-14T19:05:30","date_gmt":"2005-05-15T00:05:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=1550"},"modified":"2006-02-13T20:32:14","modified_gmt":"2006-02-14T01:32:14","slug":"beer_label_a_ha_1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2005\/05\/14\/beer_label_a_ha_1\/","title":{"rendered":"Beer Label a Hate Crime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/archives\/lost-ipa.jpg\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.overlawyered.com\/archives\/002337.html\">Overlawyered reports<\/a> &#8211;<\/p>\n\n<blockquote>The Lost Coast Brewery in Humboldt, Calif. says it will take off the shelves its Indica India Pale Ale, whose label currently depicts the Indian elephant-god Ganesh &#8220;holding a beer in one of his four hands, and another in his trunk&#8221;. Although brewery co-owner Barbara Groom said her Hindu friends don&#8217;t mind the label, a California man named Brij Dhir sued the brewery, along with other defendants such as the Safeway supermarket chain, claiming that it is offensive and intimidates Hindus from practicing their religion. &#8220;Dhir seeks at least $25,000 and his lawsuit mentions that $1 billion would be appropriate to compensate Hindus around the world.&#8221; &#8220;It&#8217;s a hate crime&#8221;, Dhir told the Contra Costa Times.<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Thanks to Ennis for the pict pointer!<!--more--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Overlawyered reports &#8211; The Lost Coast Brewery in Humboldt, Calif. says it will take off the shelves its Indica India Pale Ale, whose label currently depicts the Indian elephant-god Ganesh &#8220;holding a beer in one of his four hands, and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2005\/05\/14\/beer_label_a_ha_1\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[31],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1550"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1550\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}