{"id":2595,"date":"2010-11-01T17:13:19","date_gmt":"2010-11-01T22:13:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/2010\/11\/01\/smug-gits\/"},"modified":"2010-11-02T02:07:30","modified_gmt":"2010-11-02T07:07:30","slug":"smug-gits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/2010\/11\/01\/smug-gits\/","title":{"rendered":"Smug gits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/pictures\/wissewords\/sanity-rally.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"422\" alt=\"What Would Optimus Prime Do?\" class=\"aligncenter\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nIt took <a href=\"http:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/mjs538\/the-100-best-signs-at-the-rally-to-restore-sanity\">this photoseries<\/a> to crystalise for me what was nagging me about Jon Steward&#8217;s Rally To Restore Sanity And\/Or Fear. The signs featured are clever, geeky, ironic, somewhat smug, but apolitical. It&#8217;s protesting as performance art, bloodless and meaningless. Well intentioned, I&#8217;m sure, but meaningless. Seeing the rally on the news and reading about it on the internet I could not help but think that <em>this<\/em> was what all those well meaning, smart centrists and war apologists wanted the anti-war demonstrations to be back in 2001-2003. Polite, cheerful and ineffective.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It took this photoseries to crystalise for me what was nagging me about Jon Steward&#8217;s Rally To Restore Sanity And\/Or Fear. The signs featured are clever, geeky, ironic, somewhat smug, but apolitical. It&#8217;s protesting as performance art, bloodless and meaningless. Well intentioned, I&#8217;m sure, but meaningless. Seeing the rally on the news and reading about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[313,187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-us-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2595"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2596,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2595\/revisions\/2596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}