{"id":1378,"date":"2007-09-30T15:28:32","date_gmt":"2007-09-30T15:28:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/war-terrorism\/us-navy-to-redesign-swastika-base\/1378\/"},"modified":"2007-09-30T15:28:32","modified_gmt":"2007-09-30T15:28:32","slug":"us-navy-to-redesign-swastika-base","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/war-terrorism\/us-navy-to-redesign-swastika-base\/","title":{"rendered":"US Navy To Redesign &#8216;Swastika&#8217; Base"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Navy will redesign a base that resembles a swastika from the air.<\/p>\n<p>The Anti-Defamation League, which had complained about the suggestive shape formed by the four L-shaped buildings that make up the San Diego naval installation, said this week that military authorities agreed to order $600,000 worth of landscaping and architectural changes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Navy came to realize that this is a symbol that thousands of people died to defeat and it was inappropriate to have that shape on a military base,&#8221; said ADL regional director Morris Casuto.<\/p>\n<p>The base was built in the 1960s but theories about its shape were spawned only recently by the advent of easily accessible satellite imagery from Google Earth.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jta.org\/cgi-bin\/iowa\/breaking\/104398.html\">http:\/\/www.jta.org\/cgi-bin\/iowa\/breaking\/104398.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Navy will redesign a base that resembles a swastika from the air. The Anti-Defamation League, which had complained about the suggestive shape formed by the four L-shaped buildings that make up the San Diego naval installation, said this week that military authorities agreed to order $600,000 worth of landscaping and architectural changes. &#8220;The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[59],"class_list":{"0":"post-1378","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-war-terrorism","7":"tag-military"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1378\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}