{"id":177438,"date":"2019-09-21T20:27:00","date_gmt":"2019-09-22T01:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/09\/21\/furrsonae-non-gratae\/"},"modified":"2019-09-21T20:27:00","modified_gmt":"2019-09-22T01:27:00","slug":"furrsonae-non-gratae","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/09\/21\/furrsonae-non-gratae\/","title":{"rendered":"Furrsonae Non Gratae"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Midwest FurFest has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwingwatch.org\/post\/milo-adopts-fursona-but-furries-say-no-thanks\/\">refused to allow Milo Yiannopoulos to attend the convention<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Right-wing <i>persona non grata <\/i>Milo Yiannopoulos announced that he has adopted a \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2014\/12\/10\/7362321\/9-questions-about-furries-you-were-too-embarrassed-to-ask\">fursona<\/a>\u201d as a snow leopard and that he purchased tickets to a furry convention; in response, organizers rescinded his event registration. <\/p>\n<p>Yiannopoulos posted an email screenshot to one of the few platforms he has left\u2014his Telegram messaging channel\u2014on Saturday and claimed he registered for Midwest FurFest, a convention \u201cto celebrate the furry fandom\u201d hosted in the suburbs on Chicago this December. \u201cFurries,\u201d as they\u2019re often called, are groups of people who have interest in animal personas with human characteristics; people who participate in the subculture often present themselves as non-human characters via art and costumes.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Needless to say, members of the Furred Reich are feeling a lot of butt-hurt about this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Midwest FurFest has refused to allow Milo Yiannopoulos to attend the convention: Right-wing persona non grata Milo Yiannopoulos announced that he has adopted a \u201cfursona\u201d as a snow leopard and that he purchased tickets to a furry convention; in response, organizers rescinded his event registration. Yiannopoulos posted an email screenshot to one of the few &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[364,374,486,595,421],"class_list":["post-177438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-evil","tag-politics","tag-schadenfreude","tag-society","tag-weird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177438"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177438\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}