{"id":13709,"date":"2014-04-11T10:07:59","date_gmt":"2014-04-11T10:07:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=13709"},"modified":"2014-04-11T10:07:59","modified_gmt":"2014-04-11T10:07:59","slug":"white-wing-swan-attacks-students-of-colour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=13709","title":{"rendered":"White wing swan attacks students of colour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/whiteswan.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-13710\" alt=\"whiteswan\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/whiteswan-300x187.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"187\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/whiteswan-300x187.jpg 300w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/whiteswan-148x92.jpg 148w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/whiteswan-31x19.jpg 31w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/whiteswan-38x24.jpg 38w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/whiteswan-344x215.jpg 344w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/whiteswan-535x334.jpg 535w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/whiteswan.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Warwick University has erected a fence around a campus lake to stop a spate of swan attacks on students.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A 4ft tall bird, which boasts an 8ft wingspan, has been accused of behaved aggressively towards foreign students as they cross over a footbridge near its nesting place at the university&#8217;s Gibbet Hill campus in Coventry, West Midlands.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The footbridge is used by hundreds of students everyday as a route between accommodation and university buildings. Undergraduates revealed that the swan only appeared to target students from ethnic minorities.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">One 24-year-old student from India said: &#8220;These swans are very annoying, and the students feel as though they&#8217;re being bullied.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;I&#8217;m from India, and they attack me especially, they focus straight on me.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve been warned that the swans will be a bit feisty at this time of year, but they go for me all year round.<br \/>\n&#8220;I think they don&#8217;t like too many Indians in England &#8211; maybe the swans here are a little bit racist.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Italian student Albertina Crocetti, 24, who is studying Physics with Business Studies, said: &#8220;It&#8217;s bizarre, she doesn&#8217;t seem to like foreigners and attacks them to defend her nest.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Source: The Telegraph<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Warwick University has erected a fence around a campus lake to stop a spate of swan attacks on students. A 4ft tall bird, which boasts an 8ft wingspan, has been accused of behaved aggressively towards foreign students as they cross over a footbridge near its nesting place at the university&#8217;s Gibbet Hill campus in Coventry, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=13709\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;White wing swan attacks students of colour&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13710,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,3],"tags":[8812,1946,8810,8811],"class_list":["post-13709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe","category-news","tag-racist-swan","tag-uk","tag-warwick-university","tag-white-swan"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/whiteswan.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13709"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13711,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13709\/revisions\/13711"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}