{"id":1287,"date":"2005-11-17T20:38:14","date_gmt":"2005-11-17T19:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/ijwp\/mt.php\/2005\/11\/17\/more_hogwash_from_the_daily_spew"},"modified":"2025-10-11T11:39:02","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T10:39:02","slug":"more_hogwash_from_the_daily_spew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/mt.php\/2005\/11\/17\/more_hogwash_from_the_daily_spew","title":{"rendered":"More hogwash from the Daily Spew"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Further to my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/mt.php\/2005\/11\/03\/winter_lights_not_our_idea\">earlier entry<\/a> about the Daily Express&#39;s contribution to the &quot;Christmas is being banned&quot; meme, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.petergasston.co.uk\/\">Peter Gasston<\/a> at Perfect.co.uk <a href=\"http:\/\/www.perfect.co.uk\/2005\/11\/hogwash-is-right\">notes<\/a> that the Halifax bank has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/mediawatch\/transcripts\/s1494636.htm\">written to Australian Mediawatch<\/a> flatly denying the reports that piggy-banks have been withdrawn from their branches to avoid offending Muslims.  In fact, they have not been present in the branches for several years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Further to my earlier entry about the Daily Express&#39;s contribution to the &quot;Christmas is being banned&quot; meme, Peter Gasston at Perfect.co.uk notes that the Halifax bank has written to Australian Mediawatch flatly denying the&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p17bgV-kL","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1287"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42718,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1287\/revisions\/42718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}