{"id":815,"date":"2004-09-14T09:20:56","date_gmt":"2004-09-14T16:20:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/2004\/09\/the_s_word\/"},"modified":"2004-09-14T09:20:56","modified_gmt":"2004-09-14T16:20:56","slug":"the_s_word","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2004\/09\/the_s_word.html","title":{"rendered":"THE &#8216;S&#8217; WORD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>In a really <A class=inline href=\"http:\/\/chronicle.com\/free\/v51\/i03\/03b01101.htm\"\ntarget='new\"'><B><FONT color=#003399>important essay<\/FONT><\/B><\/A>, Carlin Romano<br \/>\nreviews&nbsp;a concept described this way: &#8220;It is worshiped like a god, and as little understood.<br \/>\nIt is the cause of untold strife and bloodshed. Genocide is perpetrated in its sacred name. It is at<br \/>\nonce a source of power and of power&#8217;s abuse, of order and of anarchy. It can be noble and it can<br \/>\nbe shameful. It is sovereignty.&#8221; The description comes from&nbsp;<A class=inline\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/080474761X\/qid=1095169544\/sr=1-1\/ref=\nsr_1_1\/104-7952028-8954301?v=glance&#038;s=books\" target='new\"'><B><FONT\ncolor=#003399>&#8220;The Sovereignty Revolution,&#8221;<\/FONT><\/B><\/A> by <A class=inline\nhref=\"http:\/\/bioguide.congress.gov\/scripts\/biodisplay.pl?index=C000877\"\ntarget='new\"'><B><FONT color=#003399>Alan Cranston<\/FONT><\/B><\/A>, the former U.S.<br \/>\nSenator from California who died in 2000. Thanks to <A class=inline\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.aldaily.com\/\" target='new\"'><B><FONT color=#003399>Arts &#038; Letters<br \/>\nDaily<\/FONT><\/B><\/A> for the tip.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a really important essay, Carlin Romano reviews&nbsp;a concept described this way: &#8220;It is worshiped like a god, and as little understood. It is the cause of untold strife and bloodshed. Genocide is perpetrated in its sacred name. It is at once a source of power and of power&#8217;s abuse, of order and of anarchy. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"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-815","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-d9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}