{"id":34938,"date":"2025-12-09T20:56:46","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T01:56:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=34938"},"modified":"2025-12-09T20:56:46","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T01:56:46","slug":"scenes-from-the-occupation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=34938","title":{"rendered":"Scenes from the Occupation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I was in Washington on Sunday. Congressional Cemetery was having a winter fair, and as I hadn’t been to Congressional Cemetery to visit my family there this year, this seemed like the right time to go.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I love Washington. My mom said many years ago that I should live there… and I should! I just need a job<\/i> there first…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(I was turned down for one Saturday evening, ironically as I was listening to “Hot Jazz Saturday Night” on Washington’s WAMU, the public radio station. Not really what I wanted on a Saturday night, but sometimes, that’s just when the email gets sent.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Washington is my kind of place. For example…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A Jeep! With a Star Trek<\/em> Delta shield tire cover! This is more awesome than the time I saw the GNU LNX license plate parked on the street outside Diamond’s offices in Timonium.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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There were signs in yards protesting the illegal military occupation of the city. And I did see National Guard troops patrolling the streets while I was there. I refrained, somehow, from shouting at them what Green Arrow shouted at the army in Frank Miller’s The Dark Knight Returns<\/em>, though I certainly thought<\/em> it and wanted<\/em> to…<\/p>\n\n\n

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There were signs on street lights as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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DC is a city under occupation, and the regime is not loved there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’ll talk about what I did at Congressional Cemetery another time. For the moment, I had a really nice time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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