{"id":2028,"date":"2007-08-08T12:56:52","date_gmt":"2007-08-08T12:56:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/2007\/08\/more_on_tintin\/"},"modified":"2007-08-08T12:56:52","modified_gmt":"2007-08-08T12:56:52","slug":"more_on_tintin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/more_on_tintin\/","title":{"rendered":"More on Tintin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I <a href=\"http:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/weblog\/archive\/002150.html\">noted<\/a> a few weeks ago that following the controversy over Tintin in the Congo, it was storming the Amazon charts (it&#8217;s currently 115).<br \/>\nSo it was interesting to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/main.jhtml?xml=\/news\/2007\/08\/08\/wtintin108.xml\">note<\/a> that in Herg&eacute;&#8217;s own home country, state prosecutors are considering whether charges can be brought. Ridiculous, I know. Plenty of racist\/sexist\/homophobic books are available to buy &#8211; not least Hitler&#8217;s very own Mein Kampf. And so they should be. We shouldn&#8217;t be trying to whitewash (pun intended) our history. We should understand that for good or bad, these views were accepted by many people in our past.<br \/>\nAnyway, I was also tickled, in some perverse way, to note that the very store where all this trouble started, when the title was inappropriately placed in the children&#8217;s section, is now displaying the book on its front of store tables.<br \/>\nWalk into Borders on Oxford Street currently, and you&#8217;ll see Tintin In Tibet proudly placed on the first table you come to as you enter the shop!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I noted a few weeks ago that following the controversy over Tintin in the Congo, it was storming the Amazon charts (it&#8217;s currently 115). So it was interesting to note that in Herg&eacute;&#8217;s own home country, state prosecutors are considering whether charges can be brought. Ridiculous, I know. Plenty of racist\/sexist\/homophobic books are available to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2028"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2028\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}