{"id":1745,"date":"2008-03-24T18:31:50","date_gmt":"2008-03-24T23:31:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.net\/?p=1745"},"modified":"2008-03-24T18:31:50","modified_gmt":"2008-03-24T23:31:50","slug":"on-the-bush-mosaic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=1745","title":{"rendered":"On the Bush Mosaic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few short days ago <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=1736\">the United States reached the fifth anniversary of its military involvement in Iraq<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday &mdash; Easter Sunday, for those of the Christian inclination &mdash; another milestone was passed.  The four thousandth American soldier fell in Iraq.<\/p>\n<p>An artist has commemorated that dubious milestone with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/nico-pitney\/a-mosaic-4000-americans_b_93044.html\">a photomosaic of President Bush and Senator John McCain, using photos of the fallen soldiers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I find myself at a loss for words.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s something cognitively dissonant about a mosaic of Bush and McCain laughing, when the photos used are of soldiers they and their policies have sent to their deaths &mdash; Bush, for starting the war on the flimsiest of pretexts; McCain, for his tireless advocacy of &#8220;The Surge.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s nothing to say.<\/p>\n<p>The mosaic speaks for itself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few short days ago the United States reached the fifth anniversary of its military involvement in Iraq. Yesterday &mdash; Easter Sunday, for those of the Christian inclination &mdash; another milestone was passed. The four thousandth American soldier fell in Iraq. An artist has commemorated that dubious milestone with a photomosaic of President Bush and<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=1745\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;On the Bush Mosaic&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[119],"tags":[273,387,559,4108],"class_list":["post-1745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-george-bush","tag-iraq","tag-john-mccain","tag-politics","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1745\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}