{"id":1469,"date":"2014-11-28T16:34:05","date_gmt":"2014-11-28T22:34:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/?p=1469"},"modified":"2014-11-28T16:34:05","modified_gmt":"2014-11-28T22:34:05","slug":"poland-bans-winnie-the-pooh-for-dubious-sexuality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/archives\/1469","title":{"rendered":"Poland bans Winnie the Pooh for &#8220;dubious sexuality&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By John Mack Freeman<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In this week&#8217;s edition of ridiculous reasons to censor something, the town of Tuszyn in central Poland has banned Winnie the Pooh for his non-standard sexuality. Yes, that&#8217;s right. The cartoon bear beloved by generations for his love of honey has placed a Polish town in a sexual quandary when naming a local park after Winnie the Pooh&#8217;s creator. Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pinknews.co.uk\/2014\/11\/22\/winnie-the-pooh-banned-in-poland-over-dubious-sexuality\/\">PinkNews<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>?The problem with that bear is it doesn?t have a complete wardrobe.<\/p>\n<p>?It is half naked which is wholly inappropriate for children.?<\/p>\n<p>Another councillor interjected: ?It doesn?t wear underpants because it doesn?t have a sex. It?s a hermaphrodite.?<\/p>\n<p>Councillor Hanna Jachimska then began to criticize author?AA?Milne.<\/p>\n<p>She said: ?This is very disturbing but can you imagine! The author was over 60 and cut [Pooh?s] testicles off with a razor blade because he had a problem with his identity.?<\/p>\n<p>It was eventually decided that?Polish bear Uszatek would be a less controversial choice, because he wears trousers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By John Mack Freeman In this week&#8217;s edition of ridiculous reasons to censor something, the town of Tuszyn in central Poland has banned Winnie the Pooh for his non-standard sexuality. Yes, that&#8217;s right. The cartoon bear beloved by generations for his love of honey has placed a Polish town in a sexual quandary when naming [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":1470,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,58,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-carousel","category-glbt-news","category-media-of-note"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1469\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}