{"id":1205,"date":"2008-04-28T12:06:42","date_gmt":"2008-04-28T16:06:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/?p=1205"},"modified":"2008-05-02T08:40:03","modified_gmt":"2008-05-02T12:40:03","slug":"zing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/28\/zing\/","title":{"rendered":"Zing!"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>This is the bitchy, badly-kept secret of American culture, which everyone knows but we&#8217;re supposed to be too polite to mention in public (and anyone who really thinks that obviously doesn&#8217;t know much about Americans): wherever there&#8217;s money to be made, that&#8217;s where &#8220;culture&#8221; will go. Because there is no culture in America, not really. There is only media, and media is always drawn to money.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:right;\">&#8212;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.comicbookresources.com\/?page=article&#038;id=16158\">Steven Grant<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">This is the bitchy, badly-kept secret of American culture, which everyone knows but we&#8217;re supposed to be too polite to mention in public (and anyone who really thinks that obviously doesn&#8217;t know much about Americans): wherever there&#8217;s money to be made, that&#8217;s where &#8220;culture&#8221; will go. Because there is no culture in America, not really. There is only media, and&hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/28\/zing\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16],"tags":[82,125],"class_list":["post-1205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-one-and-done","tag-art","tag-quote","xfolkentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s5UQvw-zing","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1205\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}