{"id":195,"date":"2004-08-12T22:37:55","date_gmt":"2004-08-13T03:37:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=195"},"modified":"2005-01-14T00:48:17","modified_gmt":"2005-01-14T05:48:17","slug":"its_not_just_re","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2004\/08\/12\/its_not_just_re\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s not just republicans who can wrap themselves in the flag"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My favorite image from the DNC in Boston:<\/p>\n\n<p><center>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"star spangled turban.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/archives\/star spangled turban.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"248\" border=\"0\" \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n\n<p>This is delegate Harjit Singh from Hershey, PA. There&#8217;s actually been a Sikh delegate at the DNC for at least 12 years. When I was younger, I remember watching an older gentleman from the South in the televised coverage; he always got at least one closeup.<\/p>\n\n<p>Sadly, there is no guaranteed patriotic prophylaxis against hate crime. Post 9\/11, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rediff.com\/us\/2001\/dec\/12ny8.htm\">Surinder Singh Siddhu was badly beaten in his L.A. liquor store by hoodlums who accused him of being Bin Laden and hit him with metal poles<\/a>. Siddhu was also similarly attired.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My favorite image from the DNC in Boston: This is delegate Harjit Singh from Hershey, PA. There&#8217;s actually been a Sikh delegate at the DNC for at least 12 years. When I was younger, I remember watching an older gentleman &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2004\/08\/12\/its_not_just_re\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195"}],"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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}