{"id":17039,"date":"2024-06-17T13:31:41","date_gmt":"2024-06-17T12:31:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/jaffa\/"},"modified":"2024-06-17T13:31:41","modified_gmt":"2024-06-17T12:31:41","slug":"jaffa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/jaffa\/","title":{"rendered":"Jaffa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-17037\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/5506bac382e397bb85ddaaecc03ee20b.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Jaffa<\/strong>{used to be a byword for a succulent orange<\/p>\n<p><em>by Steven Taylor<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Before you say I\u2019m antisemitic<\/p>\n<p>He wasn\u2019t Jewish<\/p>\n<p>But there was a child in our class<br \/>at St. George\u2019s (kindergarten) <br \/>who kept stabbing other girls<br \/>and boys with leaded pencils<\/p>\n<p>It didn\u2019t seem to bother him<br \/>how much pain he caused<\/p>\n<p>The teacher warned him<br \/>repeatedly, explaining<\/p>\n<p>how children other than himself<br \/>had feelings, nerve endings<\/p>\n<p>Eventually she became so<br \/>exasperated with his behaviour<br \/>she took away his pencils<\/p>\n<p>told him,<br \/>read a book instead of stabbing<\/p>\n<p>So why does Britain<br \/>supply arms to Israel?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jaffa{used to be a byword for a succulent orange by Steven Taylor Before you say I\u2019m antisemitic He wasn\u2019t Jewish But there was a child in our&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":632,"featured_media":17037,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1660],"tags":[2957,3049],"class_list":["post-17039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry-2","tag-gaza-genocide","tag-netanyahu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/632"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17039\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}