{"id":185,"date":"2002-09-29T00:01:35","date_gmt":"2002-09-29T07:01:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/2002\/09\/29\/hysteria\/"},"modified":"2008-01-05T00:11:42","modified_gmt":"2008-01-05T07:11:42","slug":"hysteria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/2002\/09\/29\/hysteria\/","title":{"rendered":"Hysteria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Newt Gingrich&#8217;s &#8220;Contract with America&#8221;, the definition of marriage as that of a only a man and a woman was filed as the &#8220;act to restore dignity to the human family&#8221;. Now that&#8217;s marketing, sort of like the USA PATRIOT Act, with it&#8217;s surveillance measures seems anything but. It&#8217;s amazing that a generation that was alive when Senator Joe McCarthy was weeding out alleged Communist influence during a period of hysteria seems to be repeating the same mistakes since 911. It&#8217;s an irrational lashing out &#8211; so primitive.I saw &#8216;Spirited Away&#8217;. The movie is a completely beautiful, original story using traditional, hand-drawn animation techniques.<\/p>\n<p class=\"facebook\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share.php?u=https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/2002\/09\/29\/hysteria\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share on Facebook\">Share on Facebook<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Newt Gingrich&#8217;s &#8220;Contract with America&#8221;, the definition of marriage as that of a only a man and a woman was filed as the &#8220;act to restore dignity to the human family&#8221;. Now that&#8217;s marketing, sort of like the USA PATRIOT Act, with it&#8217;s surveillance measures seems anything but. It&#8217;s amazing that a generation that &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/2002\/09\/29\/hysteria\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Hysteria&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"facebook\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share.php?u=https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/2002\/09\/29\/hysteria\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share on Facebook\">Share on Facebook<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}