{"id":593,"date":"2005-10-10T18:17:17","date_gmt":"2005-10-10T23:17:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.net\/?p=593"},"modified":"2005-10-10T18:17:17","modified_gmt":"2005-10-10T23:17:17","slug":"on-the-death-of-smurfs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=593","title":{"rendered":"On the Death of Smurfs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/main.jhtml?xml=\/news\/2005\/10\/08\/wsmurf08.xml&#038;sSheet=\/news\/2005\/10\/08\/ixhome.html\">The UN agency UNICEF has made a public service commerical in which Smurf village is carpet-bombed<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/video.vrtnieuws.net\/nieuwsnet_master\/versie2\/nieuws\/details\/051004Unicef\/N_051004_unicef_oorlogskinderen-20051004-132858-HB.wmv\">See for yourself.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>From the article:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The short film pulls no punches. It opens with the Smurfs dancing, hand-in-hand, around a campfire and singing the Smurf song. Bluebirds flutter past and rabbits gambol around their familiar village of mushroom- shaped houses until, without warning, bombs begin to rain from the sky.<\/p>\n<p>Tiny Smurfs scatter and run in vain from the whistling bombs, before being felled by blast waves and fiery explosions. The final scene shows a scorched and tattered Baby Smurf sobbing inconsolably, surrounded by prone Smurfs.<\/p>\n<p>The final frame bears the message: &#8220;Don&#8217;t let war affect the lives of children.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2005\/10\/10\/smurfs.jpg\" width=\"199\" height=\"144\" border=\"1\"\/><\/center><br \/>\nWhat&#8217;s the world coming to?  Not even Smurfs are safe from the terrors of war.  That&#8217;s just fucked up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UN agency UNICEF has made a public service commerical in which Smurf village is carpet-bombed. See for yourself. From the article: The short film pulls no punches. It opens with the Smurfs dancing, hand-in-hand, around a campfire and singing the Smurf song. Bluebirds flutter past and rabbits gambol around their familiar village of mushroom-<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=593\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;On the Death of Smurfs&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[119],"tags":[614,1023],"class_list":["post-593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-smurfs","tag-unicef","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}