{"id":1520,"date":"2008-08-28T14:21:21","date_gmt":"2008-08-28T14:21:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=1520"},"modified":"2008-08-28T14:21:21","modified_gmt":"2008-08-28T14:21:21","slug":"the_barackopolis_grow_up_peopl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2008\/08\/28\/the_barackopolis_grow_up_peopl\/","title":{"rendered":"The Barackopolis? Grow Up, People…"},"content":{"rendered":"

I really shouldn’t press my luck by writing two political posts in the same day, but I’ve been hearing a lot of nonsense about the set that’s been constructed in Mile High Stadium for Barack’s acceptance speech this evening. Seems our friends on the conservative side of the spectrum think there’s something funny about Roman-Greco-style columns. They’re making jokes about “The Temple of Obama” and “The Barackopolis.” One of John McCain’s people has reportedly<\/a> issued an illustrated style guide to instruct people on how to properly wrap a toga.<\/p>\n

Puh-lease. Most every government building in this country — including the White House, which is, of course, the goal Barack is trying to achieve — has a Neo-Classical facade. Our very system of government derives from the Greeks, something everybody should’ve learned back in middle school. I’m willing to bet that most people, whether consciously or not, simply associate columns with government and politics. There’s nothing elitist or foolish about them.<\/p>\n

But then, I’m a liberal and as such I’m not supposed to have any idea how common Americans think, right? This grandiose display is supposed to be an illustration of Barack’s arrogance and his “cult of celebrity,” right? And the Republicans would never, ever<\/i> do this sort of thing, right<\/a>?<\/p>\n

Give me a frakkin’ break. This is grade-school-level taunting of the most foolish kind, and it’s tedious bullshit like this that drains all the meaning and intelligence from our political process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I really shouldn’t press my luck by writing two political posts in the same day, but I’ve been hearing a lot of nonsense about the set that’s been constructed in Mile High Stadium for Barack’s acceptance speech this evening. Seems our friends on the conservative side of the spectrum think there’s something funny about Roman-Greco-style […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1520\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}