{"id":140,"date":"2007-09-26T19:59:25","date_gmt":"2007-09-26T19:59:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iraq-stamps.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/26\/iraq-war-stamps-controversy\/"},"modified":"2007-09-26T19:59:25","modified_gmt":"2007-09-26T19:59:25","slug":"iraq-war-stamps-controversy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iraq-stamps.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/26\/iraq-war-stamps-controversy\/","title":{"rendered":"Iraq war stamps controversy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/iraq-stamps.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/stamp372-1.jpg\" alt=\"stamp372.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>BRITAIN\u00e2\u20ac&#x2122;S official war artist is to ask the prime minister to intervene after the Royal Mail refused to issue stamps commemorating British soldiers killed in Iraq.<\/p>\n<p>Steve McQueen, a Turner prize winner, offered his portraits of more than 100 dead troops &#8211; commissioned by the Imperial War Museum to form a record of the conflict &#8211; for use on the stamps. He was backed by most of the families of the soldiers.<\/p>\n<p>However, he was rebuffed for reasons that he described last night as \u00e2\u20ac\u0153rubbish\u00e2\u20ac\u009d. The Royal Mail claimed it normally took two or three years to produce a range of stamps. But McQueen has pointed to the fact that it took only two months to produce an issue featuring Diana, Princess of Wales after her death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BRITAIN\u00e2\u20ac&#x2122;S official war artist is to ask the prime minister to intervene after the Royal Mail refused to issue stamps commemorating British soldiers killed in Iraq. Steve McQueen, a Turner prize winner, offered his portraits of more than 100 dead troops &#8211; commissioned by the Imperial War Museum to form a record of the conflict [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iraq-stamps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iraq-stamps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iraq-stamps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iraq-stamps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iraq-stamps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iraq-stamps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iraq-stamps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iraq-stamps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iraq-stamps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}