{"id":358,"date":"2004-09-09T07:13:41","date_gmt":"2004-09-09T12:13:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=358"},"modified":"2005-01-14T00:48:19","modified_gmt":"2005-01-14T05:48:19","slug":"victorinox_take","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2004\/09\/09\/victorinox_take\/","title":{"rendered":"Victorinox takes a stab at the Sikh market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Swiss Army knife maker Victorinox is creating a line of high-end <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/archives\/000355.html\">kirpans<\/a> for Sikhs, saying premium knives should be treated with the same reverence <a href=\"http:\/\/www.financialexpress.com\/fe_full_story.php?content_id=67520\">as samurai swords<\/a> (via Ennis):<\/p>\n\n<blockquote>\u00c2\u201cThe first kirpan \u00c2\u2014 with a handle made of solid gold and studded with diamonds and precious stones \u00c2\u2014 will be presented to the Darbar Sahib at the Golden Temple in Amritsar before being rolled out in India, UK, US and Canada.\u00c2\u201d<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/world\/south_asia\/3004094.stm\">Next up<\/a>: a Victorinox <a href=\"http:\/\/www.himalayan-imports.com\/gurkha.html\">kukri knife for Gurkhas<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p>Personally, I&#8217;d be happier with a desi Swiss Army knife with red chili and pickle dispensers. I&#8217;ve got no beef with ethnic cuisines and would never pull my knife on them. But I&#8217;d whip it out against continental, nouveau, and that anemic simulacrum, American vegetarian.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Swiss Army knife maker Victorinox is creating a line of high-end kirpans for Sikhs, saying premium knives should be treated with the same reverence as samurai swords (via Ennis): \u00c2\u201cThe first kirpan \u00c2\u2014 with a handle made of solid gold &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2004\/09\/09\/victorinox_take\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358"}],"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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}