{"id":16098,"date":"2010-05-06T21:58:38","date_gmt":"2010-05-07T04:58:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/?p=16098"},"modified":"2010-05-04T21:00:39","modified_gmt":"2010-05-05T04:00:39","slug":"reclaimed-swastikas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/archives\/16098","title":{"rendered":"Reclaimed swastikas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/B\/RasaIntro_01.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>No symbol polarizes more. <\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Swastika\" target=\"_blank\">swastika<\/a> &#8211; originally an icon for well-being &#8211; was perverted into something profane by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crwflags.com\/fotw\/flags\/de%7Dns_or.html\"target=\"_blank\">Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Controversial artist Ra\u0161a Todosijevi\u0107 took the form and turned it on its ear &#8211; with different interpretations, it creates other contexts. Ra\u0161a was born in Serbia in 1945, after World War II. More of his work is posted <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blankcreative.org.uk\/Rasa_Todosijevic\/Rasa_Todosijevic_images.html\"target=\"_blank\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/B\/Rasa_01.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/B\/Rasa_02.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/B\/Rasa_03.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/B\/Rasa_04.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/B\/Rasa_05.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><em>Found via <a href=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/archives\/5248\"target=\"_blank\">Marko Davidovic<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\r\n\t<div style=\"float: left; \">\r\n\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-count=\"horizontal\" data-text=\"Reclaimed swastikas\" data-url=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/archives\/16098\"  data-via=\"mehallo\">Tweet<\/a>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\"><\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No symbol polarizes more. The swastika &#8211; originally an icon for well-being &#8211; was perverted into something profane by Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party. Controversial artist Ra\u0161a Todosijevi\u0107 took the form and turned it on its ear &#8211; with different interpretations, it creates other contexts. Ra\u0161a was born in Serbia in 1945, after World [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[102,44,54],"tags":[25],"class_list":["post-16098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-finds","category-design-history","tag-avant-garde"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16098"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16291,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16098\/revisions\/16291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}