{"id":113,"date":"2008-01-24T12:14:53","date_gmt":"2008-01-24T01:14:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/calltoreason.org\/?p=113"},"modified":"2008-11-10T14:57:28","modified_gmt":"2008-11-10T03:57:28","slug":"three-little-pigs-offensive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calltoreason.org\/?p=113","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Three Little Pigs&#8221; Offensive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>BBC News<\/em> has an <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/uk_news\/education\/7204635.stm\">article<\/a> on a ebook retelling of the classic &#8220;Three Little Pigs&#8221; children&#8217;s story meant for primary school children being turned down for a government award on the grounds that some might find it offensive. The judges thought that the ebook which was distributed on a CD-ROM might offend not only Muslims due to its use of pigs as characters but also construction labourers since, well, the pigs in the story build houses.<\/p>\n<p>Needless to say, I find this to be an example of political correctness at its most ridiculous. Sometimes a pig is just a pig.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC News has an article on a ebook retelling of the classic &#8220;Three Little Pigs&#8221; children&#8217;s story meant for primary school children being turned down for a government award on the grounds that some might find it offensive. The judges thought that the ebook which was distributed on a CD-ROM might offend not only Muslims &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/calltoreason.org\/?p=113\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Three Little Pigs&#8221; Offensive<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[63,70,155,62],"class_list":["post-113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religion","tag-islam","tag-political-correctness","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calltoreason.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calltoreason.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calltoreason.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calltoreason.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calltoreason.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=113"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/calltoreason.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":775,"href":"https:\/\/calltoreason.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions\/775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calltoreason.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calltoreason.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calltoreason.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}