{"id":1843,"date":"2003-03-30T03:27:00","date_gmt":"2003-03-30T02:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/2003\/03\/30\/remember-satire-it-used-to-be-that-if\/"},"modified":"2015-06-19T00:27:07","modified_gmt":"2015-06-18T23:27:07","slug":"remember-satire-it-used-to-be-that-if","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/2003\/03\/30\/remember-satire-it-used-to-be-that-if\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Remember Satire?<\/h3>\n<p>It used to be that if you put shopping bag handles on an image of a flag, you were mocking capitalism, but now it&#8217;s a patriotic-shopping campaign.  It used to be that if you put the president&#8217;s name on a button that says, &#8220;You&#8217;re with me or with the enemy,&#8221; that you were mocking his tendencies towards autocracy.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.probush.com\/\" target=\"_TOP\">http:\/\/www.probush.com\/<\/a>.  I hope this site is a joke, but if it&#8217;s not, folks, it&#8217;s time to flee the country.  By the time it&#8217;s obvious that you need to flee right then, it&#8217;s too late.  You have to get out before it&#8217;s 100% certain.  The political discourse has shifted rightward to where it&#8217;s considered real politcal debate to suggest that the opposition be put in jail.<br \/>\nWill Bush win the elction in 2004?  As far as you know.  Did your electronic voting machine give you a reciept?  Is there any kind of paper trail?  Guess who owns the companies that make voting machines!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember Satire? It used to be that if you put shopping bag handles on an image of a flag, you were mocking capitalism, but now it&#8217;s a patriotic-shopping campaign. It used to be that if you put the president&#8217;s name on a button that says, &#8220;You&#8217;re with me or with the enemy,&#8221; that you were &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/2003\/03\/30\/remember-satire-it-used-to-be-that-if\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\"><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1843"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4095,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1843\/revisions\/4095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}