{"id":273,"date":"2005-01-19T12:20:14","date_gmt":"2005-01-19T12:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/34.95.25.178\/maggie\/2005\/01\/19\/and_the_band_played_on\/"},"modified":"2005-01-19T12:20:14","modified_gmt":"2005-01-19T12:20:14","slug":"and_the_band_played_on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/2005\/01\/19\/and_the_band_played_on\/","title":{"rendered":"And the band played on"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>George W. is in the midst of his second inauguration. Yesterday&#8217;s &#8220;celebrity-studded, flag-waving extravaganza, \u201cSaluting Those Who Serve,&#8221; was a roller-coaster of emotional ups and downs. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenewstribune.com\/news\/local\/story\/4468104p-4207256c.html\">For instance<\/a>, &#8220;<i>family members of soldiers killed in combat had brief speaking roles, and satellite links enabled U.S. troops in Afghanistan and Iraq to participate as well.<\/i>&#8221;<br \/>\nThis morning, I was woken by the CBC news coverage of this event, including a clip of a young boy, who gave his name, and that of his father, who was killed in Iraq. Call me a cynic, but doesn&#8217;t this kind of presentation just feel like blatant propaganda? Bush is just lucky that none of these family members, in their brief speaking roles, chose to say &#8220;my dad is dead, and it&#8217;s your fault.&#8221; Regardless of whether or not one supports the general idea of the War on Terror, using the family members of the dead is nothing short of exploitation. \ud83d\ude1b<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>George W. is in the midst of his second inauguration. Yesterday&#8217;s &#8220;celebrity-studded, flag-waving extravaganza, \u201cSaluting Those Who Serve,&#8221; was a roller-coaster of emotional ups and downs. For instance, &#8220;family members of soldiers killed in combat had brief speaking roles, and satellite links enabled U.S. troops in Afghanistan and Iraq to participate as well.&#8221; This morning, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/2005\/01\/19\/and_the_band_played_on\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;And the band played on&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}