{"id":234,"date":"2001-10-13T09:05:08","date_gmt":"2001-10-13T13:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/?p=234"},"modified":"2009-10-24T09:15:10","modified_gmt":"2009-10-24T13:15:10","slug":"madness-of-george-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/?p=234","title":{"rendered":"Madness of George II"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>This is one of the pieces I was happiest about, in terms of people getting the literary\/dramatic reference<\/strong> in the context of the initial mass Tourette&#8217;s outburst of almost WWI-like zaniness from the US Government and society at large in the weeks after 9\/11. I honestly didn&#8217;t think enough people in my audience would&#8217;ve seen The Madness Of George III to get it, but it turns out lots of folks had. I was rather embarrassed to have forgotten that the kind of people who collect my work aren&#8217;t going to be the kind of people who like films with hot babes, high-speed chases, robots turning into airplanes, and stuff blowing up.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-235\" title=\"madnessofgeorge2nd550w\" src=\"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/madnessofgeorge2nd550w.jpg\" alt=\"madnessofgeorge2nd550w\" width=\"550\" height=\"950\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/madnessofgeorge2nd550w.jpg 550w, http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/madnessofgeorge2nd550w-86x150.jpg 86w, http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/madnessofgeorge2nd550w-289x500.jpg 289w, http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/madnessofgeorge2nd550w-347x600.jpg 347w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It was another weirdly poignant piece: done originally for the October issue of The Progressive (without the headlines and captions) it dealt with the emerging imperialistic tendencies of the then-early Bush Regime and drawn a good month or so before 9\/11.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"the Madness of George II\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/newwar\/madnessofgeorge2nd.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Medium-res jpg image,<\/strong><\/a> 581k<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is one of the pieces I was happiest about, in terms of people getting the literary\/dramatic reference in the context of the initial mass Tourette&#8217;s outburst of almost WWI-like zaniness from the US Government and society at large in the weeks after 9\/11. I honestly didn&#8217;t think enough people in my audience would&#8217;ve seen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,8,9,77],"tags":[79,1459,78,12,80,37],"class_list":["post-234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bushit","category-right-wingnuts","category-war-and-peace","category-war-on-terror","tag-79","tag-afghanistan","tag-bin-laden","tag-bush","tag-terror","tag-terrorism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=234"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":237,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234\/revisions\/237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}