{"id":7371,"date":"2009-01-12T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-12T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2009\/01\/12\/mexico-moves-to-ban-violent-toys\/"},"modified":"2009-01-12T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-12T12:00:00","slug":"mexico-moves-to-ban-violent-toys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2009\/01\/12\/mexico-moves-to-ban-violent-toys\/","title":{"rendered":"Mexico Moves to Ban Violent Toys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"source\"><a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/01\/11\/world\/americas\/11mexico.html?hp\">www.nytimes.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"summary\">MEXICO CITY, January 20, 2009: (HPI note: Our founder, Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami, often expressed concerned about the effect of violent toys on young people. You can read his thoughts at https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/archives\/1992\/03\/1992-03-06.shtml). <\/p>\n<p>Over the Christmas holidays, Othon Cuevas Cordova, a Mexican congressman, had his life threatened, albeit in jest. His young nephew pointed a toy pistol that he had received as a gift at the lawmaker and said, &#8220;Tio, I&#8217;m going to kill you.&#8221; Mr. Cuevas was not amused. He talked to the boy&#8217;s parents about the inappropriateness of giving a child a weapon, even a plastic one, in a country so overrun with violence. And he sped up the introduction in Mexico&#8217;s National Assembly of a legislative ban on the fabrication, importation and sale of toy guns and other warlike toys. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The boy was so young he could barely say the words,&#8221; said Mr. Cueva, who is from Mexico&#8217;s southern Oaxaca State and represents the center-left Party of the Democratic Revolution. &#8220;But from infancy, children are learning the culture of violence and we need to do something about it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>www.nytimes.com MEXICO CITY, January 20, 2009: (HPI note: Our founder, Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami, often expressed concerned about the effect of,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7371\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}