{"id":273,"date":"2003-06-25T00:32:59","date_gmt":"2003-06-25T07:32:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/2003\/06\/25\/19841895\/"},"modified":"2008-01-21T00:36:51","modified_gmt":"2008-01-21T07:36:51","slug":"19841895","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/2003\/06\/25\/19841895\/","title":{"rendered":"1984\/1895"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today <a href=\"http:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Democracy                   Now<\/a> celebrated the 100th birthday of George Orwell by broadcasting                   a reading of the book from a Pacifica Radio archive recorded                   25 years ago, and contrasted that with video and audio of Gulf                   War 2 footage. It&#8217;s called <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/article.pl?sid=03\/06\/25\/1353213\" target=\"_blank\">The                   Two Georges, Orwell and Bush: A Dramatic Reading of George                   Orwell\u2019s Classic Work 1984 Interspersed With Recent News               Clips From President Bush and Others<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>&#8220;Make                         sure your miniature golf course has a distinctive appearance.                         My close personal friend Salvador Dali put his unique                         stamp on the Heritages course. The melting clock on the                         fifth hole is unforgettable. And I&#8217;m particularly proud                         of <em>Guernica<\/em> \u2013 the tenth hole \u2013 and                         Salvador&#8217;s personal tribute to Pablo Picasso. Nicklaus                         flipped for it.&#8221;<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Bud E. Luv, on creative                           tax shelters, from his book &#8220;You Oughta Be Me&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Apparently this 8th grade exam is for teachers,                 not students &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/mwhodges.home.att.net\/1895-test.htm\" target=\"_blank\">but                 it&#8217;s from 1895<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"facebook\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share.php?u=https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/2003\/06\/25\/19841895\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share on Facebook\">Share on Facebook<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today Democracy Now celebrated the 100th birthday of George Orwell by broadcasting a reading of the book from a Pacifica Radio archive recorded 25 years ago, and contrasted that with video and audio of Gulf War 2 footage. It&#8217;s called The Two Georges, Orwell and Bush: A Dramatic Reading of George Orwell\u2019s Classic Work 1984 &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/2003\/06\/25\/19841895\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;1984\/1895&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"facebook\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share.php?u=https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/2003\/06\/25\/19841895\/\" 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-273","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\/273","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=273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}