{"id":742,"date":"2006-02-24T07:29:08","date_gmt":"2006-02-24T15:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/02\/when_facing_left_it_is_the_omote_manji_representing_love_and_mercy.html"},"modified":"2006-02-24T07:29:08","modified_gmt":"2006-02-24T15:29:08","slug":"when_facing_lef","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/02\/when_facing_lef.html","title":{"rendered":"When Facing Left, It Is The Omote Manji, Representing Love And Mercy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Idiots! <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/boroughs\/story\/394112p-334165c.html\">Backwards-writing swastika-painting idiots<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>If you&#8217;re gonna hate, at least get it right.<\/p>\n<p>A vandal described by cops as &#8220;some knucklehead&#8221; put Nazi swastikas on a Bronx Jewish center early yesterday &#8212; spray-painting them backward.<\/p>\n<p>But the vandalism was enough to bring out a delegation of religious leaders and local elected officials to denounce the act and speak against religious intolerance.<\/p>\n<p>Police were investigating the incident at the Pelham Parkway Jewish Center, where the vandal, described a teenager by an eyewitness who saw the crime from an apartment window, spray-painted three large swastikas &#8212; backward &#8212; on the side wall of the center, at 900 Pelham Parkway South and Muliner Ave.<\/p>\n<p>The Police Department bias unit has been called into the case, police said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These knuckleheads don&#8217;t even know how to do it right, much less understand what something like this stands for,&#8221; said a police source.<\/p>\n<p>It was the second time in a year that the center has been vandalized with swastikas.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(Title swiped from <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Swastika\">here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Idiots! Backwards-writing swastika-painting idiots: If you&#8217;re gonna hate, at least get it right. A vandal described by cops as &#8220;some knucklehead&#8221; put Nazi swastikas on a Bronx Jewish center early yesterday &#8212; spray-painting them backward. But the vandalism was enough to bring out a delegation of religious leaders and local elected officials to denounce the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-insert_muted_trumpets_sad_wahwah_here","category-the_bronx"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}