{"id":7715,"date":"2010-05-03T01:05:46","date_gmt":"2010-05-03T00:05:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/?p=7715"},"modified":"2010-05-03T01:05:46","modified_gmt":"2010-05-03T00:05:46","slug":"ginger-gets-brains-blown-out-in-m-i-a-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/?p=7715","title":{"rendered":"Ginger Gets Brains Blown Out in M.I.A. Video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-7716\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/?attachment_id=7716\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7716\" title=\"gingerkid\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/v3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/gingerkid.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"339\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ve probably already seen the new M.I.A video for single <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/?p=7596\" target=\"_self\"><em>Born Free<\/em><\/a> that comments on genocide, racial profiling and discrimination&#8230;and you&#8217;ve probably heard all the talk about how it&#8217;s too violent for YouTube, being that a bus load of redhead boys are carted off to a desert and then massacred, including a 12 y\/o boy actor Ian Hamrick (who looks 9!) who had his brains splattered by a 9mm Glock! Here&#8217;s what that boy has to say about all the hoopla and what message he thinks M.I.A&#8217;s trying to get across: <em>I guess she was trying to show violence to end violence&#8230;the video was definitely not for kids, I haven\u2019t even seen the full video myself, but&#8230;for all the adults in different countries who are doing the genocides in real life&#8230;it\u2019s showing violence to end it, showing what it really means<\/em>. What&#8217;s really interesting is that we spent quite a lot of time in the UK and there <em>really<\/em> is this deep-rooted hatred for redheads&#8230;not that that&#8217;s what M.I.A. is literally referring to, but it&#8217;s just another layer. We actually find the spekled boys hot and would never advocate harming their little Chili peppers!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;ve probably already seen the new M.I.A video for single Born Free that comments on genocide, racial profiling and discrimination&#8230;and you&#8217;ve probably heard all the talk about how it&#8217;s too violent for YouTube, being that a bus load of redhead boys are carted off to a desert and then massacred, including a 12 y\/o boy [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7715"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7715"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7724,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7715\/revisions\/7724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}