{"id":1676,"date":"2009-07-03T08:20:22","date_gmt":"2009-07-03T08:20:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/?p=1676"},"modified":"2009-07-03T08:22:03","modified_gmt":"2009-07-03T08:22:03","slug":"national-identity-public-ritual","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/2009\/07\/national-identity-public-ritual\/","title":{"rendered":"National Identity And Public Ritual"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>3. National Identity And Public Ritual<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Nations are defined and maintained by their public rituals. On <a href=\"http:\/\/deekdeekster.com\/2008\/07\/03\/an-american-suggestion\/\">July 3rd 2008<\/a>, I proposed that the world&#8217;s wealthiest nation, the United States of America, initiate a public holiday to be held on July 4th to lift itself out of the gloom of their financially-collapsed country. <\/p>\n<p>Despite the fact that they now have a relatively conscientious leadership with all the added navel-gazing that requires, this display of fireworks, beer drinking, marching bands, macho posturing and unwanted pregnancies proved so successful that a July 4th celebration is to be held again this year. <\/p>\n<p><code><object width=\"400\" height=\"360\" id=\"phreadz1\" codebase=\"http:\/\/fpdownload.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=9,0,0,0\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" align=\"middle\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"sameDomain\" \/><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/phreadz.com\/swf\/phreadz1.swf\" \/><param name=\"quality\" value=\"high\" \/><param name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"#111111\" \/><param name=\"flashVars\" value=\"guid=53IDRPCO8DBV\" \/><embed src=\"http:\/\/phreadz.com\/swf\/phreadz1.swf\" flashVars=\"guid=53IDRPCO8DBV\" quality=\"high\" bgcolor=\"#111111\" width=\"400\" height=\"360\" name=\"phreadz1\" align=\"middle\" allowScriptAccess=\"sameDomain\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" pluginspage=\"http:\/\/www.macromedia.com\/go\/getflashplayer\" \/><\/object><\/code><\/p>\n<p>Well done America.<\/p>\n<p>The third in a series of proposals designed to make all our lives easier, more fulfilling, lovelier journeys.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>3. National Identity And Public Ritual Nations are defined and maintained by their public rituals. On July 3rd 2008, I proposed that the world&#8217;s wealthiest nation, the United States of America, initiate a public holiday to be held on July 4th to lift itself out of the gloom of their financially-collapsed country. Despite the fact [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":126,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[276],"tags":[110,384,383],"class_list":["post-1676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flip-side","tag-america","tag-national-identity","tag-ritual"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/126"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1676"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1679,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1676\/revisions\/1679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}