{"id":74691,"date":"2026-06-01T12:43:25","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T16:43:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/?p=74691"},"modified":"2026-06-01T16:39:40","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T20:39:40","slug":"statement-of-fact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2026\/06\/statement-of-fact.html","title":{"rendered":"Statement of Fact<\/em><\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"
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“now lookin’ at you” \u00a9 2026<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n
Neither soldier<\/strong>s
nor tourists,
we never<\/strong><\/strong><\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/em>
went to Vietnam.<\/strong><\/strong><\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/em>
In my<\/strong>
<\/i>generation's war,
our peaceful protests<\/strong>
<\/i>kept the peace
the best we could \u2014<\/strong>
<\/i>yet could not.
<\/strong><\/em><\/strong>After Afghanistan,<\/strong>
<\/a><\/i>after Iraq,<\/strong> 
we\u2019ve circled back<\/a> <\/em><\/strong>
to Iran.<\/em><\/strong>
<\/i>
 jh <\/strong><\/em><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
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In my
\n generation’s war,
\nour peaceful protests
\nkept the peace
\nthe best we could \u2014
\nyet could not. <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":74380,"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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[19,18,4,23,17],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-74691","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-art","8":"category-literature","9":"category-main","10":"category-news","11":"category-political-culture","12":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/CIRCLE-1-750.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-jqH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74691","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=74691"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74878,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74691\/revisions\/74878"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}