{"id":7869,"date":"2015-11-19T22:32:47","date_gmt":"2015-11-20T05:32:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=7869"},"modified":"2015-11-19T22:32:47","modified_gmt":"2015-11-20T05:32:47","slug":"keep-your-school-all-american","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2015\/11\/19\/keep-your-school-all-american\/","title":{"rendered":"Keep Your School All-American!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I shared this on Facebook earlier, so apologies if you&#8217;ve already seen it, but it touches me pretty deeply, and I feel honor-bound to spread it as far as I can. This cartoon (which I believe was also produced as a poster in the 1950s) encapsulates the ideal of America that <em>I<\/em> grew up believing in, an ideal that feels pretty quaint and naive in light of many of the things being said at the moment. But it&#8217;s an ideal I still cling to:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/superman_all-american-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7870\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/superman_all-american-1.jpg\" alt=\"superman_all-american\" width=\"726\" height=\"743\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/superman_all-american-1.jpg 726w, https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/superman_all-american-1-293x300.jpg 293w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 726px) 100vw, 726px\" \/><\/a>Like I&#8217;ve said before, &#8220;They can be a great people, Kal-El, they <em>wish<\/em> to be&#8230; they only lack the light to show them the way&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I shared this on Facebook earlier, so apologies if you&#8217;ve already seen it, but it touches me pretty deeply, and I feel honor-bound to spread it as far as I can. This cartoon (which I believe was also produced as a poster in the 1950s) encapsulates the ideal of America that I grew up believing [&hellip;]<\/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-7869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7869","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=7869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7869\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}