{"id":1566,"date":"2007-08-07T08:30:36","date_gmt":"2007-08-07T15:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/2007\/08\/banana_days_are_here_again\/"},"modified":"2007-08-07T08:30:36","modified_gmt":"2007-08-07T15:30:36","slug":"banana_days_are_here_again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2007\/08\/banana_days_are_here_again.html","title":{"rendered":"Banana Days Are Here Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/pages\/frontline\/torture\/view\/\" class=inline target=new\"><strong><font color=#003399>B<\/strong><\/font><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.truthout.org\/docs_2006\/101606O.shtml\" class=inline target=new\"><strong><font color=#FF0000>a<\/strong><\/font><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/pages\/frontline\/torture\/view\/\" class=inline target=new\"><strong><font color=#003399>n<\/strong><\/font><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.truthout.org\/docs_2006\/101606O.shtml\" class=inline target=new\"><strong><font color=#FF0000>a<\/strong><\/font><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/pages\/frontline\/torture\/view\/\" class=inline target=new\"><strong><font color=#003399>n<\/strong><\/font><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.truthout.org\/docs_2006\/101606O.shtml\" class=inline target=new\"><strong><font color=#FF0000>a<\/strong><\/font><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/pages\/frontline\/torture\/view\/\" class=inline target=new\"><strong><font color=#003399>R<\/strong><\/font><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.truthout.org\/docs_2006\/101606O.shtml\" class=inline target=new\"><strong><font color=#FF0000>e<\/strong><\/font><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/pages\/frontline\/torture\/view\/\" class=inline target=new\"><strong><font color=#003399>p<\/strong><\/font><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.truthout.org\/docs_2006\/101606O.shtml\" class=inline target=new\"><strong><font color=#FF0000>u<\/strong><\/font><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/pages\/frontline\/torture\/view\/\" class=inline target=new\"><strong><font color=#003399>b<\/strong><\/font><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.truthout.org\/docs_2006\/101606O.shtml\" class=inline target=new\"><strong><font color=#FF0000>l<\/strong><\/font><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/pages\/frontline\/torture\/view\/\" class=inline target=new\"><strong><font color=#003399>i<\/strong><\/font><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.truthout.org\/docs_2006\/101606O.shtml\" class=inline target=new\"><strong><font color=#FF0000>c<\/strong><\/font><\/a> has gained a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2007\/08\/05\/AR2007080501050.html\" class=inline target=new\"><strong><font color=#003399>new lease on life<\/strong><\/font><\/a> from a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/08\/07\/opinion\/07tue1.html?_r=1&#038;hp&#038;oref=slogin\" class=inline  target=new\"><strong><font color=#003399>craven combination<\/strong><\/font><\/a> of mindless BananaRepublicans and feckless BananaDemocrats. The dog days of summer are upon us, too. See ya later.<br \/>\n<strong>Aug. 10:<\/strong> Oh, and before I go &#8230; here&#8217;s a postscript: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.signandsight.com\/features\/1478.html\" class=inline target=new\"><strong><font color=#003399>Something even scarier<\/strong><\/font><\/a>, pointed out by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/archives\/2007\/07\/did_someone_say.html#more\" class=inline target=new\"><strong><font color=#003399>mi amigo<\/strong><\/font><\/a> with reference to the &#8220;brown-skinned shadows&#8221; in Iraq, &#8220;whose violent demise need not touch the American realm.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The aaaeulc has gained a craven combination of mindless BananaRepublicans and feckless BananaDemocrats. The dog days of summer are upon us, too. See ya later. Aug. 10: Oh, and before I go &#8230; here&#8217;s a postscript: mi amigo with reference to the &#8220;brown-skinned shadows&#8221; in Iraq, &#8220;whose violent demise need not touch the American realm.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1566","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-pg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1566\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}