{"id":1603,"date":"2005-05-20T19:22:27","date_gmt":"2005-05-21T00:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=1603"},"modified":"2005-05-20T17:40:39","modified_gmt":"2005-05-20T22:40:39","slug":"the_slum_of_all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2005\/05\/20\/the_slum_of_all\/","title":{"rendered":"The &#8220;Slum of All Fears??&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was enjoying <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\" target=\"_blank\">Slate&#8217;s<\/a> coverage of the &#8220;Army of the Monkey God&#8221; until today.  This is the lead picture on Slate.com today.  Its one thing to report on the activities of adults but its another thing entirely to &#8220;exploit&#8221; young kids for an attention grabbing money shot like this one.  Little kids all over the world will ape the adults around them.  That&#8217;s common knowledge.  To pass this off a militancy amongst the youth by referencing <a href=\"http:\/\/search.barnesandnoble.com\/booksearch\/isbnInquiry.asp?userid=ba6wF1QAmK&#038;isbn=0425184226&#038;itm=1\" target=\"_blank\">a Tom Clancy novel<\/a> about a nuclear terrorist attack, is more than a bit lame.  &#8220;Look at the hateful litte brown kids.&#8221;  You see these same types of exploitive pictures from Palestine all the time.<\/p>\n\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2118033\/entry\/2118040\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"slumofallfears.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/archives\/slumofallfears.jpg\" width=\"470\" height=\"209\" align=\"center\" hspace=20 vspace=10 border=0\/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n\n<p>Hmmmm.  Come to think of it though it would make a good banner for our site.<\/p>\n\n<p>Previous posts: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/archives\/001563.html\" target=\"_blank\">1<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/archives\/001581.html\" target=\"_blank\">2<\/a><\/p>\n\n<!--more-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was enjoying Slate&#8217;s coverage of the &#8220;Army of the Monkey God&#8221; until today. This is the lead picture on Slate.com today. Its one thing to report on the activities of adults but its another thing entirely to &#8220;exploit&#8221; young &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2005\/05\/20\/the_slum_of_all\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1603"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1603\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}