{"id":572,"date":"2005-08-21T12:41:17","date_gmt":"2005-08-21T19:41:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=572"},"modified":"2005-08-21T12:41:17","modified_gmt":"2005-08-21T19:41:17","slug":"572","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2005\/08\/21\/572\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>Green Day’s “American Idiot” album — undoubtedly the rawk critics will end up considering a “seminal album of the oughts”, permanently placed on various rock-and-roll listings of such things 40 slots after Led Zeppelin IV– has four singles released from its tracks.<\/p>\n

Two of the songs are political: “American Idiot” and “Holiday”. Two of them aren’t “Boulevard of Broken Dreams” and “Wake Me Up When September Ends”.<\/p>\n

But looking at the videos… the only video that is political in nature is “Wake Me Up When September Ends”. The band managed to sort of de-politicize to the greatest extent possible “American Idiot” and “Holiday”. And, by adding a few minutes of a sappy little story to stick “Wake Me Up When September Ends”, they turned the song into an anti-recruitment video. (Found here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Perhaps that effect is a result of the re-election of Bush and the meaning of the War in Iraq. I don’t know.<\/p>\n

Anyway… The Decembrists’ 16 Military Wives<\/a> is found here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Green Day’s “American Idiot” album — undoubtedly the rawk critics will end up considering a “seminal album of the oughts”, permanently placed on various rock-and-roll listings of such things 40 slots after Led Zeppelin IV– has four singles released from its tracks. Two of the songs are political: “American Idiot” and “Holiday”. Two of them […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572","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=572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}