{"id":360222,"date":"2018-05-08T10:35:01","date_gmt":"2018-05-08T09:35:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/california-school-mural-depicts-aztec-warrior-holding-trumps-severed-head-heart\/"},"modified":"2018-05-08T10:35:01","modified_gmt":"2018-05-08T09:35:01","slug":"california-school-mural-depicts-aztec-warrior-holding-trumps-severed-head-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/california-school-mural-depicts-aztec-warrior-holding-trumps-severed-head-heart\/","title":{"rendered":"California School Mural Depicts Aztec Warrior Holding Trump\u2019s Severed Head, Heart"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\">\n<p>Artists in Chula Vista, California, who painted a school mural depicting an Aztec warrior carrying the severed head of President Donald Trump on a spear have decided to change the mural after a storm of protest.<\/p>\n<p>The mural also depicted the warrior holding a human heart \u2014 presumably, that of the president. The image recalls well-documented\u00a0rituals of human sacrifice\u00a0among the Aztecs, who are also thought to have eaten their victims.<\/p>\n<p>The mural was painted several days ago and then immediately covered up after local news reporters learned of it.\u00a0Artist Sasha Andrade Mercado\u00a0posted\u00a0images of the mural to social media regardless, decrying what she called censorship.<\/p>\n<p>Several days later, the mural has been repainted to remove the offending image.<\/p>\n<p>A report by local ABC News affiliate\u00a010 News\u00a0indicates that the artists intend to repaint the mural of Trump elsewhere in the city.<\/p>\n<p>Mercado\u00a0posted a note\u00a0on Facebook on Sunday, indicating the mural was moved due to threats to the school:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>We decided to change the mural because there were threats made to the school from \u201cwhite supremacist\u201d and threats to the kids, we were just going to adjust the mural but when things got out of control and the school started receiving threats and putting the students at risk we decided to change it completely , other media outlets started to enter school property and not being nice about it for example KUSI News John Soderman walked in the schools reception demanding to see the mural&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/redice.tv\/news\/california-school-mural-depicts-aztec-warrior-holding-trumps-severed-head-heart\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artists in Chula Vista, California, who painted a school mural depicting an Aztec warrior carrying the severed head of President Donald Trump on a spear have decided to change the mural after a storm of protest. The mural also depicted the warrior holding a human heart \u2014 presumably, that of the president. The image recalls [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2520,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-360222","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2520"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=360222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360222\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}