{"id":418,"date":"2002-03-12T03:26:44","date_gmt":"2002-03-12T11:26:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/03\/12\/propaganda\/"},"modified":"2019-11-26T15:11:44","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T23:11:44","slug":"propaganda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/03\/12\/propaganda\/","title":{"rendered":"Propaganda"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:16446,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.artfightsback.com\\\/bottom4.htm&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20250607093123\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.artfightsback.com\\\/bottom4.htm&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-14 09:13:15&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-21 04:15:15&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-21 04:15:15&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:16447,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.metafilter.com\\\/comments.mefi\\\/15443&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20050829092757\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.metafilter.com:80\\\/comments.mefi\\\/15443&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-14 09:13:17&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-21 04:15:17&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-21 04:15:17&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:16448,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/fighter-ace.propfighter.com\\\/FA3\\\/Images\\\/suposters.htm&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20021107023953\\\/http:\\\/\\\/fighter-ace.propfighter.com:80\\\/FA3\\\/Images\\\/suposters.htm&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-14 09:13:23&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-21 04:15:20&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-21 04:15:20&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artfightsback.com\/bottom4.htm\" title=\"Art Fights Back\">Propaganda, anyone?<\/a> This site <em>really<\/em> got my attention after it was posted over on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metafilter.com\/comments.mefi\/15443\" title=\"MeFi comments thread\">MetaFilter<\/a> today. On the one hand, on a conceptual\/artistic level, I like most of what I see (though some of the posters really are just plain bad). However, on a more intellectual level, it&#8217;s just frightening, due to the strong resemblance to <a href=\"http:\/\/fighter-ace.propfighter.com\/FA3\/Images\/suposters.htm\" title=\"Soviet propaganda posters\">WWII-era Soviet propaganda posters<\/a>. I was hoping that it may have been more satirical in nature, but apparently this is a real, serious attempt&#8230;though at exactly what isn&#8217;t entirely clear from the site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Propaganda, anyone? On the one hand, on a conceptual\/artistic level, I like most of what I see. However, on a more intellectual level, it&#8217;s just frightening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}