{"id":12012,"date":"2013-07-31T09:33:55","date_gmt":"2013-07-31T08:33:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=12012"},"modified":"2013-08-01T13:20:18","modified_gmt":"2013-08-01T12:20:18","slug":"a-wonderful-example-of-czech-irreverent-humour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=12012","title":{"rendered":"A wonderful example of Czech irreverent humour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My wife Vee and I have just returned from a long weekend (four nights) in Prague where we were attending <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=11987\">the wedding of a dear friend<\/a>. It was my 24th trip to the Czech Republic, largely explained by the fact that Vee is half Czech.<\/p>\n<p>We have seen all the sights so many times so, on recent visits, we have concentrated on viewing exhibitions and museums where we can observe something new. This time, we went to the Franz Kafka Museum which is situated in a courtyard with an unusual fountain.<\/p>\n<p>The fountain depicts two life-sized male figures urinating into a pond which is shaped like the outline of the Czech Republic. You&#8217;ll get the idea here:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bv-9JWW9aj0\" height=\"315\" width=\"420\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I cannot imagine such a feature in Britain &#8211; it would be regarded as offensive. And such a piece of art in the United States would probably be viewed as so anti-patriotic as to be almost an act of terrorism.<\/p>\n<p>But the Czechs have a wonderfully irreverent sense of humour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My wife Vee and I have just returned from a long weekend (four nights) in Prague where we were attending the wedding of a dear friend. It was my 24th trip to the Czech Republic, largely explained by the fact that Vee is half Czech. We have seen all the sights so many times so, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultural-issues","category-my-life-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12012"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12020,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12012\/revisions\/12020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}