{"id":15260,"date":"2003-01-21T12:15:00","date_gmt":"2003-01-21T12:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2003\/01\/21\/x-men-ruled-to-be-nonhuman\/"},"modified":"2003-01-21T12:15:00","modified_gmt":"2003-01-21T12:15:00","slug":"x-men-ruled-to-be-nonhuman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2003\/01\/21\/x-men-ruled-to-be-nonhuman\/","title":{"rendered":"X-Men Ruled To Be Nonhuman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <i>Wall Street Journal<\/i> reports that the <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article_email\/0,,SB1043013622300562504,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">U.S. Court of International Trade has ruled that the X-Men, as well as many comic book characters, are &ldquo;nonhuman.&rdquo;<\/a>  While a little strange-sounding, this ruling allows Marvel and other action figure companies to receive lower import tariffs because instead of being classified as &ldquo;human&rdquo; dolls they are considered &ldquo;nonhuman&rdquo; toys.  This is especially ironic considering that in the comic books (and movies, now) the X-Men fought for the right to be considered human, albeit with superhuman mutant powers.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-90212718?l=www.driko.org%2Findex_blogger.html\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Wall Street Journal reports that the U.S. Court of International Trade has ruled that the X-Men, as well as many comic book characters, are &ldquo;nonhuman.&rdquo; While a little strange-sounding, this ruling allows Marvel and other action figure companies to receive lower import tariffs because instead of being classified as &ldquo;human&rdquo; dolls they are considered &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2003\/01\/21\/x-men-ruled-to-be-nonhuman\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;X-Men Ruled To Be Nonhuman&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-15260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-imported"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15260\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}