{"id":198,"date":"2007-08-18T01:31:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-18T06:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2007\/08\/18\/capitalist-co-optation\/"},"modified":"2007-08-18T01:31:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-18T06:31:00","slug":"capitalist-co-optation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2007\/08\/18\/capitalist-co-optation\/","title":{"rendered":"Capitalist Co-optation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I took these pictures of a store front in Orange County. They illustrate the co-optation of our democracy by capitalism and the way in which \u201cfreedom\u201d has been reduced to being able to \u201cchoose\u201d how to spend your money.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/blogger2wp\/2SellingDemocracy.JPG\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5099925624532458226\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/blogger2wp\/432SellingDemocracy.JPG\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/blogger2wp\/SellingDemocracy.JPG\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-1\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5099925091956513506\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/blogger2wp\/2SellingDemocracy.JPG\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/blogger2wp\/32SellingDemocracy.JPG\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-2\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5099924877208148690\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/blogger2wp\/65432SellingDemocracy.JPG\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>Don&#8217;t miss the &#8220;Denim Now&#8221; button with the peace dove.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I took these pictures of a store front in Orange County. They illustrate the co-optation of our democracy by capitalism and the way in which \u201cfreedom\u201d has been reduced to being able to \u201cchoose\u201d how to spend your money. Don&#8217;t miss the &#8220;Denim Now&#8221; button with the peace dove.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[229,98,23703,85,234],"class_list":["post-198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-consumption","tag-capitalism","tag-marketing","tag-politics","tag-democracy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}