{"id":5495,"date":"2009-10-13T23:58:14","date_gmt":"2009-10-14T03:58:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/?p=5495"},"modified":"2009-10-14T00:12:57","modified_gmt":"2009-10-14T04:12:57","slug":"night-light-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/?p=5495","title":{"rendered":"Night Light Fight."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5496\" title=\"sderot\" src=\"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/sderot.jpg\" alt=\"sderot\" width=\"500\" height=\"569\" srcset=\"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/sderot.jpg 468w, http:\/\/harryallen.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/sderot-263x300.jpg 263w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Even as a supporter of Gaza and the West Bank, I was immediately taken with the texture, shapes, and angles of designer Michael Tsinzovsky&#8217;s &#8220;Little Night Lamp For <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sderot\"  target=\"_blank\">Sderot<\/a>,&#8221; above, and below right. As <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yankodesign.com\/2009\/10\/12\/little-night-lamp-for-sderot-by-michael-tsinzovsky\/\"  target=\"_blank\">the text on Yanko Design noted<\/a>,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The lamp is created from a bomb shelter light switch as a gesture to the citizens of Sderot, Israel who have been living under siege for years.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-5499\" title=\"sderot2\" src=\"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/sderot2-252x300.jpg\" alt=\"sderot2\" width=\"200\" height=\"239\" srcset=\"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/sderot2-252x300.jpg 252w, http:\/\/harryallen.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/sderot2.jpg 468w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>Commenters on the site, though, don&#8217;t seen to feel Tzinzovsky&#8217;s politics. For example:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201d the citizens of Sderot, Israel who have been living under siege for years\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>with my all knowledge of the middle-east history, I can\u2019t recall such a period. Sieged by who?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Or this one, in reply:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Sieged by the Palestinians of course! With their.. rocks?<\/p>\n<p>despite the stupidity of the gesture, its quite a nice piece of design. Perhaps a night light for the Palestinian children would be more appropriate.<br \/>\nIt could be made out of the rubble of the houses they grew up in?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>Dag<\/em>: <em>Everything<\/em> in the Middle East is political, even home design. That&#8217;s why we gotta free Palestine!<\/p>\n<p>[via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yankodesign.com\/2009\/10\/12\/little-night-lamp-for-sderot-by-michael-tsinzovsky\/\"  target=\"_blank\"><em>YankoDesign.com<\/em><\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even as a supporter of Gaza and the West Bank, I was immediately taken with the texture, shapes, and angles of designer Michael Tsinzovsky&#8217;s &#8220;Little Night Lamp For Sderot,&#8221; above, and below right. As the text on Yanko Design noted, The lamp is created from a bomb shelter light switch as a gesture to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[46,21],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5495"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5495"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5498,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5495\/revisions\/5498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}