{"id":13898,"date":"2011-11-04T16:07:04","date_gmt":"2011-11-04T20:07:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=13898"},"modified":"2011-11-04T16:07:04","modified_gmt":"2011-11-04T20:07:04","slug":"v-for-naive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=13898","title":{"rendered":"V For Naive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ya know those Guy Fawkes masks the OWS people have been wearing ? Well, the press finally noticed that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/45162958\/ns\/us_news-life\/#.TrRDubIg-4Z\" rel=\"nofollow\">the symbolism sucks<\/a>, and they are not happy:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nYet whether the inspiration is the comic, the movie or the historical figure, the imagery \u2014 co-opted today by everyone from Wikileaks founder Julian Assange to the hacker group Anonymous \u2014 carries stronger connotations than some of the Occupy protesters seem to understand.<\/p>\n<p>While Fawkes\u2019 image has been romanticized over the past 400 years, he was a criminal who tried to blow up a government building. It would be hard to imagine Americans one day wearing Timothy McVeigh masks to protest the government or corporate greed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ouch.<\/p>\n<p>Leave it to the left to let the theater overtake the message.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ya know those Guy Fawkes masks the OWS people have been wearing ? Well, the press finally noticed that the symbolism sucks, and they are not happy: Yet whether the inspiration is the comic, the movie or the historical figure, the imagery \u2014 co-opted today by everyone from Wikileaks founder Julian Assange to the hacker [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13898\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}