{"id":4004,"date":"2024-10-24T10:35:27","date_gmt":"2024-10-24T14:35:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/?p=4004"},"modified":"2024-10-24T15:23:13","modified_gmt":"2024-10-24T19:23:13","slug":"choose-joy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/?p=4004","title":{"rendered":"Choose Joy."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/choosejoy\/choosejoy300dpi.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" style=\"border: 0px; margin: 5px 0px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/choosejoy\/choosejoy650w.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"460\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>So, I&#8217;m out doing my laps earlier this week, and I spot<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/choosejoy\/harriswalzyardsign_choosejoy.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"> this lawn sign<\/a><\/strong> in front of a house about 2 blocks around the corner from us \u2014 and all I can think is that somebody in the DNC&#8217;s ad agencies isn&#8217;t quite clear on the concept of &#8220;joy&#8221;. Not just as an intelligent human, but as a designer and art director with 30+ years in the biz, I gotta say that this choice of color and typography does NOT bespeak &#8220;joy&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The sign glowers at me, dark and mean, telling me to &#8220;choose joy&#8221; as if issuing an order, as if implying &#8220;&#8230;or ELSE&#8221; \u2014 coming off like the latest in a long line of fascistic, authoritarian slogans: War Is Peace, Freedom Is Slavery, Ignorance Is Strength; Arbeit Macht Frei; Country Over Party. Choose Joy, or else.<\/p>\n<p><strong>8.5 x 12 inch high-res <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/choosejoy\/choosejoy300dpi.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">color .jpg image,<\/a> 909 kb<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, I&#8217;m out doing my laps earlier this week, and I spot this lawn sign in front of a house about 2 blocks around the corner from us \u2014 and all I can think is that somebody in the DNC&#8217;s ad agencies isn&#8217;t quite clear on the concept of &#8220;joy&#8221;. Not just as an intelligent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1336,1136,7,10,168,132],"tags":[1440,1441,996,1442],"class_list":["post-4004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2024-election","category-bidenism","category-elections","category-media","category-palestine","category-party-animals","tag-choose-joy","tag-joy","tag-kamala-harris","tag-walz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4004","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=4004"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4014,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4004\/revisions\/4014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}