{"id":4821,"date":"2015-11-19T18:18:09","date_gmt":"2015-11-19T23:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=4821"},"modified":"2015-11-19T18:18:29","modified_gmt":"2015-11-19T23:18:29","slug":"since-handling-of-the-und-logo-debate-has-been-so-comical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=4821","title":{"rendered":"Since handling of the UND logo debate has been so comical&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/2015\/11\/Sioux-Logo-Comical.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-4820\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/2015\/11\/Sioux-Logo-Comical-500x217.jpg\" alt=\"Sioux-Logo-Comical\" width=\"500\" height=\"217\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/2015\/11\/Sioux-Logo-Comical-500x217.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/2015\/11\/Sioux-Logo-Comical-150x65.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/2015\/11\/Sioux-Logo-Comical.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/2015\/11\/Sioux-Logo-Comical-900x391.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a>The choice is clear.\u00a0 UND has bungled the UND logo and mascot issue so horribly, that only a cartoon character is appropriate to portray the laughable nickname of &#8220;The Fighting Hawks&#8221;.\u00a0 Thus I dive into Photoshop, my beloved playground.<\/p>\n<p>From denying the Sioux people (yes, I said <a href=\"http:\/\/standingrock.org\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Sioux<\/em><\/a>) a seat at the NCAA table in Indianapolis when the edict was given to stop using the nickname, to denying the people of Standing Rock to vote on the issue,\u00a0 to the farcical &#8220;vote&#8221; taken to choose the replacement while omitting &#8220;North Dakota&#8221; (no nickname) from the ballot, the people involved in this process should be ashamed of themselves.<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;ll always be the Fighting Sioux.\u00a0 No matter what pointy-headed PC liberals want you to think.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The choice is clear.\u00a0 UND has bungled the UND logo and mascot issue so horribly, that only a cartoon character is appropriate to portray the laughable nickname of &#8220;The Fighting Hawks&#8221;.\u00a0 Thus I dive into Photoshop, my beloved playground. From &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=4821\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-und-fighting-sioux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4821"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4823,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4821\/revisions\/4823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}