{"id":464,"date":"2002-03-18T06:31:03","date_gmt":"2002-03-18T22:31:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/03\/18\/the-american-brand\/"},"modified":"2019-12-06T08:47:51","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T16:47:51","slug":"the-american-brand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/03\/18\/the-american-brand\/","title":{"rendered":"The American brand"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\n  Having conflicting views about the U.S. &#8212; admiring its creativity, for instance, but resenting its double standards &#8212; doesn&#8217;t mean you are &#8216;mixed up,&#8217; to use Mr Olins&#8217; phrase, it means you have been paying attention.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8212; Naomi Klein, in an article on the <a href=\"http:\/\/alternet.org\/story.html?StoryID=12617\" title=\"And the line between corporations and government blurs even further....\">branding of America<\/a>, something that in many ways has far too many overtones of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0780622561\/djwudicom-20\" title=\"If dad hasn't seen this yet, he really should.\">Wag the Dog<\/a> for me to be entirely comfortable with.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having conflicting views about the U.S. &#8212; admiring its creativity, for instance, but resenting its double standards &#8212; doesn&#8217;t mean you are &#8216;mixed up,&#8217; to use Mr Olins&#8217; phrase, it means you have been paying attention.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2042],"tags":[39],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464"}],"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=464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}