{"id":317,"date":"2009-01-21T09:52:56","date_gmt":"2009-01-21T16:52:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/xsml\/?p=317"},"modified":"2009-01-21T09:52:56","modified_gmt":"2009-01-21T16:52:56","slug":"synedoche-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/2009\/01\/21\/synedoche-china\/","title":{"rendered":"synecdoche, china"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The charming documentary <a href=\"http:\/\/pleasevoteforme.org\/\">Please Vote for Me<\/a> documents an unprecedented election for class monitor in a third grade classroom in the city of Wuhan, China.<\/p>\n<p>The filmmakers appear to be implying that when it comes to democracy, the Chinese have the experience of a third grader and can be too easily swayed by gifts, field trips and spirited singalongs. It&#8217;s a great movie.<\/p>\n<p>But if Americans, by comparison, have the experience of a college student, we&#8217;ve only just left our most sophomoric era. Beer busts, Ayn Rand seminars, a dramatic coup by the College Republicans.<\/p>\n<p>Does the election of President Obama mean we&#8217;ve entered grad school? Heavily indebted, well-read, cash poor, with a secure if low-paying career ahead of us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The charming documentary Please Vote for Me documents an unprecedented election for class monitor in a third grade classroom in the city of Wuhan, China. The filmmakers appear to be implying that when it comes to democracy, the Chinese have the experience of a third grader and can be too easily swayed by gifts, field&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317"}],"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=317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}