{"id":2009,"date":"2010-03-11T09:25:49","date_gmt":"2010-03-11T16:25:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/xsml\/?p=2009"},"modified":"2010-03-11T09:25:49","modified_gmt":"2010-03-11T16:25:49","slug":"the-best-art-transforms-the-way-you-see-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/2010\/03\/11\/the-best-art-transforms-the-way-you-see-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"The best art transforms the way you see the world."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m struck by the impact that <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Thick_of_It\">The Thick of It<\/a> has made on me. In the last two days, I&#8217;ve come across two real life stories of political ineptitude that I was able to relish because of that fictional series: <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2010\/03\/meg-whitman-campaign-ejects-reporters-for-asking-questions-video.php\">Meg Whitman Campaign Ejects Reporters For Asking Questions<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/03\/09\/AR2010030903654.html\">the following<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Asked whether he has had shower encounters like the one Massa alleged, Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.) was interrupted by an aide &#8212; &#8220;Senator, we definitely have a speaking engagement&#8221; &#8212; and whisked away before he could respond. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m struck by the impact that The Thick of It has made on me. In the last two days, I&#8217;ve come across two real life stories of political ineptitude that I was able to relish because of that fictional series: Meg Whitman Campaign Ejects Reporters For Asking Questions and the following: Asked whether he has&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2009"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2009\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}