{"id":964,"date":"2008-11-17T13:08:26","date_gmt":"2008-11-17T02:08:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/calltoreason.org\/?p=964"},"modified":"2008-11-18T18:58:43","modified_gmt":"2008-11-18T07:58:43","slug":"does-this-look-like-a-burning-cross-to-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calltoreason.org\/?p=964","title":{"rendered":"Does this look like a burning cross to you?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-966 aligncenter\" title=\"10000310\" src=\"https:\/\/calltoreason.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/10000310.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/calltoreason.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/10000310.gif 400w, https:\/\/calltoreason.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/10000310-150x150.gif 150w, https:\/\/calltoreason.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/10000310-300x300.gif 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This picture has been making the rounds on the Internet. It&#8217;s a product being sold by the <a href=\"https:\/\/store.afa.net\/pc-10000310-11-christmas-cross.aspx\">American Family Association<\/a> for Christmas: a cross with lights on it. Unfortunately for the AFA quite a lot of people think that it looks like a burning cross, with all the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cross_burning\">Ku Klux Klan<\/a> baggage that entails.<\/p>\n<p>Personally it does look like a burning cross to me, and I think the AFA must be pretty dense not to realize how negative a message it might imply, but, hey, decide for yourself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This picture has been making the rounds on the Internet. It&#8217;s a product being sold by the American Family Association for Christmas: a cross with lights on it. Unfortunately for the AFA quite a lot of people think that it looks like a burning cross, with all the Ku Klux Klan baggage that entails. Personally &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/calltoreason.org\/?p=964\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Does this look like a burning cross to you?<\/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":[13,16],"tags":[40,192],"class_list":["post-964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fun","category-religion","tag-christianity","tag-cross"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calltoreason.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964","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=964"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/calltoreason.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":978,"href":"https:\/\/calltoreason.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964\/revisions\/978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calltoreason.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calltoreason.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calltoreason.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}