{"id":1852,"date":"2004-01-27T20:23:00","date_gmt":"2004-01-28T00:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles-wp\/?p=1852"},"modified":"2004-01-27T20:23:00","modified_gmt":"2004-01-28T00:23:00","slug":"bread-and-circuses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2004\/01\/27\/20\/23\/bread-and-circuses\/","title":{"rendered":"Bread And Circuses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/views04\/0127-08.htm\"><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Wasn&#8217;t outer space the dopey diversion of the well-behaved during the Cold War? Weren&#8217;t moon shots the 60s&#8217; and 70s&#8217; bread and circuses for a country worn out by a pointless war abroad and social insurrections at home? Replay. The country is again being worn out by a pointless war abroad and split by political and economic divisions at home. Insurrections can&#8217;t be far behind. China is looking to put a man on The moon. What better excuse for a president &#8212; whose deficits in dollars and sense already reach well past the moon &#8212; than to aim for Mars?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wasn&#8217;t outer space the dopey diversion of the well-behaved during the Cold War? Weren&#8217;t moon shots the 60s&#8217; and 70s&#8217; bread and circuses for a country worn out by a pointless war abroad and&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1852\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}