{"id":271,"date":"2007-11-05T09:07:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-05T14:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2007\/11\/05\/shock-and-awe-war-as-entertainment\/"},"modified":"2009-11-29T14:47:04","modified_gmt":"2009-11-29T19:47:04","slug":"shock-and-awe-war-as-entertainment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2007\/11\/05\/shock-and-awe-war-as-entertainment\/","title":{"rendered":"shock and awe: war as entertainment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a result of my dissertation research, I receive a lot of military emails and mail. Today I got an email called &#8220;shock and awe&#8221; with this text:<\/p>\n<blockquote><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Raw photos and movies of explosions, fierce battles, inspirational footage and more, uploaded by members and military personnel.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I don&#8217;t think <a href=\"http:\/\/shock.military.com\/Shock\/home.do?ESRC=reg_other.bb\">this website<\/a> needs a lot of commentary. Note the &#8220;miltary.com: enterainment&#8221; logo in the upper left and the various kinds of entertainment offered&#8211; tattoos, video games, books etc.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/blogger2wp\/shock.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5129360782698271906\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/blogger2wp\/2shock.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>And take a look at <a href=\"http:\/\/shock.military.com\/Shock\/gallery\/popular.do\">the most popular videos<\/a>: &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/shock.military.com\/Shock\/videos.do?displayContent=155334&amp;page=1\">Iraqi Cadets Can&#8217;t Do Jumping Jacks<\/a>&#8221; with the tag line &#8220;Oh boy we&#8217;re going to be in Iraq for a while&#8230;&#8221; and <a href=\"http:\/\/shock.military.com\/Shock\/videos.do?displayContent=89939\">&#8220;the BN Disciplinator&#8221;<\/a> (with a lot going on race and gender wise). The &#8220;Disciplinator&#8221; is hard to watch but really, you have to at least get through the first couple minutes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a result of my dissertation research, I receive a lot of military emails and mail. Today I got an email called &#8220;shock and awe&#8221; with this text: Raw photos and movies of explosions, fierce battles, inspirational footage and more, uploaded by members and military personnel. I don&#8217;t think this website needs a lot of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[329,1711,133,309],"class_list":["post-271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-emotion","tag-toysgames","tag-violence","tag-warmilitary"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271","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\/52"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=271"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17107,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271\/revisions\/17107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}