{"id":851,"date":"2016-09-26T10:38:53","date_gmt":"2016-09-26T14:38:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/?p=851"},"modified":"2016-09-25T10:46:44","modified_gmt":"2016-09-25T14:46:44","slug":"thats-democracy-a-short-film-about-you-and-me-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2016\/09\/thats-democracy-a-short-film-about-you-and-me-america\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;That&#8217;s Democracy!&#8221; (a short film about you and me, America)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">I don&#8217;t know what to think of this. It starts out feeling pretty cheap and emotionally manipulative, but I think it&#8217;s ultimately a sort of spot-on indictment of how we all\u2014as Americans, left, right, and center\u2014deeply buy into the Murder Business.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jseknkdNfA0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>see also:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-854\" src=\"http:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/ZwynorS.jpg\" alt=\"Spider Jerusalem on Democracy\" width=\"960\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/ZwynorS.jpg 960w, https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/ZwynorS-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/ZwynorS-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>(that&#8217;s Spider Jerusalem on democracy, courtesy of the unhappily prescient\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Transmetropolitan\">Transmetropolitan<\/a>\u2014<\/em>although I still tend to disagree with this\u00a0distinguished caricature of Hunter S. Thompson)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know what to think of this. It starts out feeling pretty cheap and emotionally manipulative, but I think it&#8217;s ultimately a sort of spot-on indictment of how we all\u2014as Americans, left, right, and center\u2014deeply buy into the Murder Business.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_share_on_mastodon":"1"},"categories":[3],"tags":[30,62,53,56],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=851"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":855,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851\/revisions\/855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}