{"id":16200,"date":"2016-12-27T19:11:53","date_gmt":"2016-12-28T02:11:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=16200"},"modified":"2016-12-27T19:11:53","modified_gmt":"2016-12-28T02:11:53","slug":"rip-celebrity-figure-of-some-stature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2016\/12\/27\/rip-celebrity-figure-of-some-stature\/","title":{"rendered":"rip, celebrity figure of some stature"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"georgemichaelchooselife\"\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 The caption writes itself.<\/p>\n

But probably shouldn’t.<\/p>\n

It’s like the quick bemusement I had at Jerry Garcia’s passing.\u00c2\u00a0 “Who’s Grateful Now?”\u00c2\u00a0 Then I just wipe the smirk off my face.<\/p>\n

Here I suppose it’s “sometimes you have the choice, other times –”<\/p>\n

Quick guilty smirk, wipe it off, and proceed.<\/p>\n

Curious, though<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 Indeed, Michael\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s trademark \u00e2\u20ac\u0153CHOOSE LIFE\u00e2\u20ac\u009d T-shirt \u00e2\u20ac\u201d a work of\u00c2\u00a0political-firebrand-cum-designer Katharine Hamnett \u00e2\u20ac\u201d wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t intended to be an antiabortion statement. Rather, it was\u00c2\u00a0a willful call to hope in the face of daunting odds<\/em>.<\/p>\n

It’s sort of obvious (I suppose?) he’s not anti-abortion, though he is wading through Thatcher ‘s Great Britain and Ronald Reagan’s America and conservative cross-currents such that you stare at such a thing and wonder… What?\u00c2\u00a0 was he trying to sell to a partial a traditional market-place?<\/p>\n

Oh.\u00c2\u00a0 No.\u00c2\u00a0 He (or whatever is behind “Wham”) is reclaiming the message of “Choose Life”.\u00c2\u00a0 Or…\u00c2\u00a0 And…<\/p>\n

No.\u00c2\u00a0 No.\u00c2\u00a0 George Michael wasn’t about commercialism.\u00c2\u00a0 I mean, what of that whole Freedom 90 video , huh?\u00c2\u00a0 Huh?\u00c2\u00a0 Huh?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 The caption writes itself. But probably shouldn’t. It’s like the quick bemusement I had at Jerry Garcia’s passing.\u00c2\u00a0 “Who’s Grateful Now?”\u00c2\u00a0 Then I just wipe the smirk off my face. Here I suppose it’s “sometimes you have the choice, other times –” Quick guilty smirk, wipe it off, and proceed. Curious, though.\u00c2\u00a0 Indeed, Michael\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16200"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16202,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16200\/revisions\/16202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}