{"id":3456,"date":"2012-06-19T02:10:18","date_gmt":"2012-06-19T09:10:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2012\/06\/hideous-kicks-thats-the-true-controversy\/"},"modified":"2012-06-21T02:16:52","modified_gmt":"2012-06-21T09:16:52","slug":"hideous-kicks-thats-the-true-controversy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2012\/06\/19\/hideous-kicks-thats-the-true-controversy\/","title":{"rendered":"Hideous kicks &#8211; that&#8217;s the true controversy."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-2160977\/Adidas-unveiling-new-trainer-orange-shackles-like-worn-black-slaves.html\" target=\"_blank\">from the UK Daily Mail<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<h1>&#8216;How would a Jewish person feel if you put a swastika on a shoe?&#8217; Adidas under fire for unveiling new trainer with orange &#8216;shackles&#8217; like those worn by black slaves<\/h1>\n<p><em>By\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/home\/search.html?s=&amp;authornamef=Daily+Mail+Reporter\" target=\"_blank\">DAILY MAIL REPORTER<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/i\/pix\/2012\/06\/18\/article-0-13A9DDEA000005DC-13_634x698.jpg\" height=\"auto\" width=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Adidas\u00a0has come under fire for creating a pair of trainers with \u2018shackles\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Critics have compared the \u2018JS Roundhouse Mids\u2019, to be released in August, to the chains worn by black slaves in the 19th century.<\/p>\n<p>The firm unveiled the trainers on its Facebook page. They feature plastic orange \u2018shackles\u2019 attached to the ankles by chains in the same colour.<\/p>\n<p>The shoes have sparked an angry debate online. More than 2,000 Facebook users have commented, with many calling the design \u2018offensive\u2019 and \u2018ignorant\u2019, saying the firm has \u2018sunk to new lows\u2019 with its \u2018slavewear\u2019 product.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-2160977\/Adidas-unveiling-new-trainer-orange-shackles-like-worn-black-slaves.html\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue read at the Daily Mail<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from the UK Daily Mail &#8216;How would a Jewish person feel if you put a swastika on a shoe?&#8217; Adidas under fire for unveiling new trainer with orange &#8216;shackles&#8217; like those worn by black slaves By\u00a0DAILY MAIL REPORTER Adidas\u00a0has come under fire for creating a pair of trainers with \u2018shackles\u2019. Critics have compared the \u2018JS [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3456\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}