{"id":9281,"date":"2019-03-22T09:26:40","date_gmt":"2019-03-22T08:26:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/?p=9281"},"modified":"2019-03-22T09:29:09","modified_gmt":"2019-03-22T08:29:09","slug":"insecurity-theatre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/9281\/","title":{"rendered":"Insecurity Theatre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Commenter Widmerpool <a href=\"https:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/9275\/#comment-442387\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">makes a point<\/a> regarding the Kiwi headscarf campaign which I ought to have done:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Bunch of kids playing dress up to make themselves feel better.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;ve <a href=\"https:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/9032\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">written about this<\/a> before, of course:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>An awful lot of what passes for women\u2019s politics these days is just a big game of dress-up.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>David Moore posts a link to this picture:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Kiwi-Scarves.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9282\" src=\"https:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Kiwi-Scarves.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Kiwi-Scarves.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Kiwi-Scarves-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Kiwi-Scarves-768x513.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Kiwi-Scarves-449x300.jpg 449w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And this morning on Twitter:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Television news in New Zealand tonight ???????? ???? ???? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/IfGhtHrZfK\">pic.twitter.com\/IfGhtHrZfK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Anna Fifield (@annafifield) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/annafifield\/status\/1108964434142097408?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 22, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\nThat&#8217;s all it is, isn&#8217;t it? A big game of dress up. I&#8217;ve pretty much abandoned hope of any adults &#8211; of either sex &#8211; turning up to put a stop to it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Commenter Widmerpool makes a point regarding the Kiwi headscarf campaign which I ought to have done: Bunch of kids playing dress up to make themselves feel better. I&#8217;ve written about this before, of course: An awful lot of what passes &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/9281\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[79,119],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9281"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9281"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9284,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9281\/revisions\/9284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}