{"id":48,"date":"2013-04-27T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-04-27T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yule-tide.generalsemiotics.net\/index.php\/2013\/04\/27\/post-41-the-usa-circa-1930\/"},"modified":"2013-04-27T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-04-27T00:00:00","slug":"post-41-the-usa-circa-1930","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/2013\/04\/27\/post-41-the-usa-circa-1930\/","title":{"rendered":"Post-41: The USA Circa 1930"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wsite-youtube\" style=\"margin-top:5px;margin-bottom:5px;\">\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><object width=\"400\" height=\"330\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/s6jSqt39vFM?version=3\"><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/s6jSqt39vFM?version=3\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"400\" height=\"330\"><\/embed><\/object><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"paragraph\" style=\"text-align:left;\">A patriotic assembly of some sort, circa 1930, featuring U.S. Civil War veterans.<\/p>\n<p>I am struck by the positive and optimistic<em> Weltanschauung<\/em> on display. There is a purity, a distinct non-cynicism. (Is there a word for non-cynicism?). \/ Their descendants today are more cynical and pessimistic. \/ There are many kids in the audience: If the kids of today were teleported back and attended this event, they&#8217;d roll their eyes and think &#8220;that high-pitched yelling is so <em>gay<\/em>&#8220;, no doubt.\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div style=\"height: 20px; overflow: hidden; width: 100%;\"><\/div>\n<hr class=\"styled-hr\" style=\"width:100%;\">\n<div style=\"height: 20px; overflow: hidden; width: 100%;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"paragraph\" style=\"text-align:center;\">\n<em style=\"\">I will do the best I know <u>how<\/u>, to get that [Rebel] Yell up for ya.<\/em><br \/><span><\/span><em style=\"\">What few of us old &#8220;cornfeds&#8221; are left, we do all we can.<br \/><\/em><em style=\"\">We can&#8217;t give you much, but we&#8217;ll give you what we&#8217;ve got left.<\/em>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div style=\"height: 20px; overflow: hidden; width: 100%;\"><\/div>\n<hr class=\"styled-hr\" style=\"width:100%;\">\n<div style=\"height: 20px; overflow: hidden; width: 100%;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A patriotic assembly of some sort, circa 1930, featuring U.S. Civil War veterans. I am struck by the positive and optimistic Weltanschauung on display. There is a purity, a distinct non-cynicism. (Is there a word for non-cynicism?). \/ Their descendants today are more cynical and pessimistic. \/ There are many kids in the audience: If [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}