{"id":506,"date":"2009-10-30T19:26:50","date_gmt":"2009-10-31T00:26:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/?p=506"},"modified":"2009-11-19T21:02:50","modified_gmt":"2009-11-20T02:02:50","slug":"the-spirit-of-99","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/?p=506","title":{"rendered":"The Spirit of ’99"},"content":{"rendered":"

Holy jeez, gang, has it really been ten years already?<\/strong> Phew, now that really<\/em> makes me feel old. Luckily for me, fiftysomething is the new thirtysomething…or something.<\/p>\n

So, when I was asked to design the poster for the Seattle\/WTO Tenth Anniversary event here in DC, there was only one thing to do — another parody of a famous work of art, in this case, a classic of Kitsch Americana, Archibald Willard’s iconic Spirit Of ’76,<\/em> the hit of the show at the 1876 Columbian Exposition.<\/p>\n

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But, aaa-<\/em>aaaanyway…the big do is on Monday, November 30, at Chief Ike’s Mambo Room in Adams-Morgan, 1725 Columbia Road NW, at 7pm; it’s a fund raiser for the Washington Peace Center and the Funk The War Alumni Association (for all you ex-college kids who are too old for SDS, but still want to get funky). There’ll be the obligatory drinking and party-mix grooves, of course. There’ll also be some vintage Seattle\/WTO rebellion video running, because we really loves us some anarchy.<\/p>\n

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So, hit the copy shop, mix up the paste, grab your rollers, and hit the streets, kids, and I’ll see yer butts down at Chief Ike’s on N30!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Holy jeez, gang, has it really been ten years already? Phew, now that really makes me feel old. Luckily for me, fiftysomething is the new thirtysomething…or something. So, when I was asked to design the poster for the Seattle\/WTO Tenth Anniversary event here in DC, there was only one thing to do — another parody […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,19,44,5],"tags":[50,48,47,198,51,46,52,45],"class_list":["post-506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dc-local","category-economy","category-globalization","category-liberty","tag-a16","tag-anarchism","tag-anarchists","tag-direct-action","tag-imf","tag-seattle","tag-world-bank","tag-wto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506","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=506"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":512,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506\/revisions\/512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}