{"id":554,"date":"2006-02-27T12:42:17","date_gmt":"2006-02-27T11:42:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/ijwp\/mt.php\/2006\/02\/27\/hockney_smoke_and_stupidity"},"modified":"2025-10-10T22:02:44","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T21:02:44","slug":"hockney_smoke_and_stupidity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/mt.php\/2006\/02\/27\/hockney_smoke_and_stupidity","title":{"rendered":"Hockney, smoke and stupidity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are three letters in today&#39;s <em>Guardian<\/em> attacking <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/David_Hockney\">David Hockney<\/a>, pop artist nowadays noted for his campaign against smoking bans in public places where people have to work.  The letters are in response to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/frontpage\/story\/0,,1717612,00.html\">a letter in Saturday&#39;s paper<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Guardian Unlimited | The Guardian | Letters: Hockney's arguments about freedoms go up in smoke\" href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/letters\/story\/0,,1718941,00.html\">Guardian Unlimited | The Guardian | Letters: Hockney&#39;s arguments about freedoms go up in smoke<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I have to say I&#39;ve no sympathy for Hockney whatsoever &#8211; there is absolutely nothing worse, as a non-smoker, than sitting (and, as is usually the case, eating) in a place which is full of other people&#39;s smoke.  As for freedom, I thought freedom was meant to finish where it began harming others?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are three letters in today&#39;s Guardian attacking David Hockney, pop artist nowadays noted for his campaign against smoking bans in public places where people have to work. The letters are in response to&#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":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-windbags"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p17bgV-8W","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554","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=554"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42560,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554\/revisions\/42560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}