{"id":2130,"date":"2008-12-14T16:59:15","date_gmt":"2008-12-14T21:59:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=2130"},"modified":"2008-12-14T18:24:54","modified_gmt":"2008-12-14T23:24:54","slug":"shoes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=2130","title":{"rendered":"Shoes?!?&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At 19:16 GMT (i.e., 2:16 p.m. EST, less than 3 hours ago), the BBC Web site reported that an Iraqi threw shoes at George W. Bush. <em>Shoes?<\/em> Yes, shoes&#8230;.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>An Iraqi journalist was wrestled to the floor by security guards after he called Mr Bush &#8220;a dog&#8221; and threw his footwear, just missing the president.<\/p>\n<p>The soles of shoes are considered the ultimate insult in Arab culture&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>In the middle of the news conference with Mr Maliki, a reporter stood up and shouted &#8220;this is a goodbye kiss from the Iraqi people, dog,&#8221; before hurtling his shoes at Mr Bush, narrowly missing him&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Correspondents called it a symbolic incident. Iraqis threw shoes and used them to beat Saddam Hussein&#8217;s statue in Baghdad after his overthrow&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/middle_east\/7782422.stm\">Link to story and video<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What a wildly improbable story, and what an interesting example of political theatre. I guess peace rallies on the Mall in Washington are just too Old School, so nowadays the really cool protesters throw shoes.<\/p>\n<p>I shouldn&#8217;t be so flippant. That journalist is dead meat, and is probably having the crap beaten out of him even as I write this. Watch the video &#8212; security is going easy on him because there are cameras watching, but they are not being nice to him &#8212; wait until there aren&#8217;t any cameras trained on them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At 19:16 GMT (i.e., 2:16 p.m. EST, less than 3 hours ago), the BBC Web site reported that an Iraqi threw shoes at George W. Bush. Shoes? Yes, shoes&#8230;. An Iraqi journalist was wrestled to the floor by security guards after he called Mr Bush &#8220;a dog&#8221; and threw his footwear, just missing the president. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[309],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2130"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2132,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2130\/revisions\/2132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}