{"id":1062,"date":"2024-05-08T15:10:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-08T15:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/?p=1062"},"modified":"2025-09-24T12:43:23","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T12:43:23","slug":"the-shady-past-of-pink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/?p=1062","title":{"rendered":"The shady past of pink"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/bbc.png\" style=\"clear: left;float: left;margin-bottom: 1em;margin-right: 1em\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1080\" data-original-width=\"1920\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEgm7WEnkc-P9FriGLuyJqI9FR1dT1vNmFsF9YkHz4v_CpmQmYKe353KpSfZjzi3QH3wfS8Yyci4z-R8gvVV62t1Te355OxtdziJxrhf01sp1sW753NO3SPkB_oRb9Bsw-Btiw8Ui97wTKeHxC_hJ61TSjNn8eZvCH6a7VRPRqNIaFND2GhgvUCwQ-ui6JBB\/w640-h360\/bbc.png\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: courier\">&#8216;A hue now associated with innocence once had a murkier meaning: Kelly Grovier looks at the ways in which pink has represented violence and seduction.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: courier\">Pink is a double-edged sword. While red is raucous and racy, and white is prim and pure, pink cuts both ways. Long before the word \u201cpink\u201d attached itself to the pretty pastel shade of delicate carnations, as we define the term today, the London underworld enlisted it for something rather less frilly or fragrant \u2013 to denote the act of stabbing someone with a sharp blade. \u201cHe pink\u2019d his Dubblet\u201d, so reads an entry for the word in a 17th-Century dictionary of street slang used by \u201cBeggars, Shoplifters, Highwaymen, Foot-Pads and all other Clans of Cheats and Villains\u201d, describing a lethal lunge through a man\u2019s padded jacket, \u201cHe run him through\u201d.&#8217;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: courier\">SOURCE:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/culture\/article\/20180419-the-shady-past-of-the-colour-pink\">BBC article<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;A hue now associated with innocence once had a murkier meaning: Kelly Grovier looks at the ways in which pink has represented violence and seduction. Pink is a double-edged sword. While red is raucous and racy, and white is prim and pure, pink cuts both ways. Long before the word \u201cpink\u201d attached itself to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1063,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1062"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1064,"href":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1062\/revisions\/1064"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}