{"id":190480,"date":"2009-11-21T16:12:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-21T21:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/11\/21\/stupid-2\/"},"modified":"2009-11-21T16:12:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-21T21:12:00","slug":"stupid-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/11\/21\/stupid-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Stupid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, the crew of the HMS Scimitar decided to do target practice on a buoy, which should be no big deal, only before opening fire, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/worldnews\/article-1229580\/British-ambassador-forced-apologise-Royal-Navy-ship-used-Spanish-flag-target-practice.html\">they adorned their target the Spanish Flag<\/a>, and the ambassador to Spain has been forced to apologize:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 102);\"><p>The Royal Navy was accused yesterday of using a Spanish flag as a machine-gun target.<\/p>\n<p>Giles Paxman, the UK&#8217;s new ambassador in Madrid, was forced to apologise after sailors fired at a red-and-yellow flag affixed to a buoy while patrolling off Gibraltar.<\/p>\n<p>He was summoned to the Spanish Foreign Ministry for a dressing down and officials said he had conceded there had been an &#8216;error of judgement&#8217;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m not entirely sure why the crew did this, it was not for any historical purposes, as the anniversary of the battle of the Spanish Armada was August 8.<\/p>\n<p>My guess is that this has something to do with the 300 year long dispute over Gibraltar, but even so, I think that one ship captain is facing early retirement in Her Majesty&#8217;s Navy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, the crew of the HMS Scimitar decided to do target practice on a buoy, which should be no big deal, only before opening fire, they adorned their target the Spanish Flag, and the ambassador to Spain has been forced to apologize: The Royal Navy was accused yesterday of using a Spanish flag as a &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[984,964,1161,982],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe","category-foreign-relations","category-naval","category-stupid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190480"}],"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=190480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190480\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}