{"id":3595,"date":"2010-05-19T23:48:12","date_gmt":"2010-05-20T07:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/?p=3595"},"modified":"2010-05-20T02:35:49","modified_gmt":"2010-05-20T10:35:49","slug":"everybody-draw-mohammed-day-is-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/?p=3595","title":{"rendered":"Everybody Draw Mohammed Day Is Here!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mynorthwest.com\/?nid=11&sid=313170\">To-day, 20 May, is Everybody Draw Mohammed Day.<\/a>  I'm quite disappointed that its founder has retreated; I could not have withdrawn in good conscience, even though my contribution demonstrates that I am pretty poor at working in charcoal: <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/mohammed.png\" alt=\"[drawing of the head of a bearded man of Mediterranean stock]\" width=\"450\" height=\"500\" style=\"border: 0 ; display: block ; margin-top: 1em ; margin-bottom: 1em ; margin-left: auto ; margin-right: auto ;\" \/><\/p> <p>Some people have chosen to draw caricatures, but my objective was simply to violate a grossly illegitimate prohibition.  As such, I sought to <em>draw Mohammed<\/em>.  If the death threats become more narrowly focussed on those who cre&auml;te caricatures, then I will cre&auml;te a caricature.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"To-day, 20 May, is Everybody Draw Mohammed Day. I'm quite disappointed that its founder has retreated; I could not have withdrawn in good conscience, even though my contribution demonstrates that I am pretty poor at working in charcoal: Some people have chosen to draw caricatures, but my objective was simply to violate a grossly illegitimate [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[164,6,29,9,104,4],"tags":[807,392,806,808,22,23,805,497],"class_list":["post-3595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-commentary","category-disturbing-the-peace","category-ideology-philosophy","category-news","category-public","tag-censorship","tag-freedom-of-expression","tag-freedom-of-speech","tag-islam","tag-liberalism","tag-liberty","tag-personal-liberty","tag-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3595\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}