{"id":14090,"date":"2024-05-15T14:01:46","date_gmt":"2024-05-15T14:01:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/?p=14090"},"modified":"2024-05-15T14:11:47","modified_gmt":"2024-05-15T14:11:47","slug":"a-bloody-portrait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/?p=14090","title":{"rendered":"A bloody portrait"},"content":{"rendered":"

In today’s attempt to divert attention to the dire political and economic situation of the English Empire\/Untied Kingdom, the media are today awash with the story of the unveiling of a portrait of Mr Charles Philip Arthur Georg Mountbatten-Windsor, frequently referred to by the gullible as King Charles.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

Here’s the BBC’s example<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

Here’s what all the fuss is about.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\"The\r\n\r\n
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The BBC also records varying public reactions<\/a> to the portrait, as long as they do not stray from the sycophantic.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

Many were initially taken aback by the vivid red colour with some saying it looked like fire. Others described the painting as \u201cunexpected\u201d but \u201cmodern\u201d.<\/blockquote>\r\n\r\n

However, not so much sycophancy exists on social media where much more republican sentiment and an alterative reading of history were apparent, as in a post on X\/Twitter (or whatever the man-baby called Musk is calling it this week. Ed.<\/em>) by Sandra Eckersley.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\"Post\r\n\r\n

Your ‘umble scribe believes Ms Eckersley shares his view of colonial English\/British history, a series of crimes against humanity lasting several centuries, involving invasion, murder, theft, exploitation, expropriation and slavery to name but a few offences on the charge sheet.<\/p>\r\n\r\nNeedless to say, Mr Mountbatten-Windsor is rather pleased with his new portrait, apparently unworried about being depicted as wallowing in a bloodbath.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In today’s attempt to divert attention to the dire political and economic situation of the English Empire\/Untied Kingdom, the media are today awash with the story of the unveiling of a portrait of Mr Charles Philip Arthur Georg Mountbatten-Windsor, frequently referred to by the gullible as King Charles. Here’s the BBC’s example. Here’s what all […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,15,34],"tags":[36,33,20,35],"class_list":["post-14090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-politics","category-social-media","tag-comment","tag-media-2","tag-politics-2","tag-social-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14090"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14105,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14090\/revisions\/14105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}