{"id":602,"date":"2004-07-11T22:23:58","date_gmt":"2004-07-12T01:23:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=602"},"modified":"2004-07-11T22:23:58","modified_gmt":"2004-07-12T01:23:58","slug":"of-the-worst-kind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=602","title":{"rendered":"Of the worst kind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=dropcap>I<\/span> have a problem with flag-waving people. There you have it. No matter how you turn it, flag-waving still smells like <em>nationalism<\/em> to me. Of the worst kind. It&#8217;s the <em>symbolism<\/em> that turns me off: it happens everytime I see a winning athlete picking up a flag from the crowd and draping himself\/herself in it. I mean, that athlete, he won the race himself and on his own, right? Why bother running around with the country&#8217;s flag? If I finish a masterpiece of programming work, you think <em>I<\/em> would drape myself in the national flag and run around the office? Sounds silly, right?\n<\/p>\n<p>For some kind of reason, I keep thinking that the flag-draping and waving stems from the early Eighties, and to be specific, from the Olympics.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.olympic.org\/uk\/games\/past\/index_uk.asp?OLGT=1&#038;OLGY=1980\">1980<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.olympic.org\/uk\/games\/past\/index_uk.asp?OLGT=1&#038;OLGY=1984\">1984<\/a> to be exactly. Maybe I&#8217;m wrong.<\/p>\n<p>Guess, I won&#8217;t be watching the Olympics. Unless athletes decide to run around with flags with pictures of their relatives and trainers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a problem with flag-waving people. There you have it. No matter how you turn it, flag-waving still smells like nationalism to me. Of the worst kind. It&#8217;s the symbolism that turns me off: it happens everytime I see &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=602\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}