{"id":1633,"date":"2008-03-26T09:36:25","date_gmt":"2008-03-26T16:36:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/2008\/03\/drum_roll_redux\/"},"modified":"2008-03-26T09:36:25","modified_gmt":"2008-03-26T16:36:25","slug":"drum_roll_redux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2008\/03\/drum_roll_redux.html","title":{"rendered":"Drum Roll Redux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now that this blog has been redesigned to take advantage of the latest in Web technology &#8212; thanks to ArtsJournal&#8217;s publisher and editor Doug McLennan, also known as &#8220;resident genius&#8221; &#8212; it occurred to me to check the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2003\/08\/drum_roll_please.html\">first blogpost<\/a> put up here.<\/p>\n<p>This is what struck me:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"webkit-indent-blockquote\" style=\"margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;\"><p>Have an online look at two things in real time: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalpriorities.org\/costofwar_home\">the mounting cost of the war in Iraq<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.earthcam.com\/usa\/newyork\/timessquare\/\">what&#8217;s happening in Times Square<\/a>. I would suggest there&#8217;s a direct correlation: The higher the cost, the glummer the tourists.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"webkit-indent-blockquote\" style=\"margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;\"><p><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That blogpost, which went up on Aug. 11, 2003, also googled <a href=\"http:\/\/www.coxar.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk\/\">&#8220;weapons of mass destruction,&#8221;<\/a> noted the news coverage of John Cage&#8217;s &#8220;music for the ages,&#8221; and described how the media (specifically msnbc.com) was &#8220;shilling for celebrities.&#8221; So little has changed, eh?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now that this blog has been redesigned to take advantage of the latest in Web technology &#8212; thanks to ArtsJournal&#8217;s publisher and editor Doug McLennan, also known as &#8220;resident genius&#8221; &#8212; it occurred to me to check the first blogpost put up here. This is what struck me: Have an online look at two things [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1633","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-ql","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1633","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=1633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1633\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}