{"id":30933,"date":"2010-12-25T10:38:55","date_gmt":"2010-12-25T15:38:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=30933"},"modified":"2011-11-21T01:33:08","modified_gmt":"2011-11-21T06:33:08","slug":"is-peace-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2010\/12\/25\/is-peace-free\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Peace Free?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I saw this ad last year but forgot to post it. What I find interesting is the way that &#8220;peace&#8221; has been both stripped of any real meaning and presented as something easy to achieve:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2010\/12\/peace.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-30934 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2010\/12\/peace-386x500.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"386\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2010\/12\/peace-386x500.jpg 386w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2010\/12\/peace-791x1024.jpg 791w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 386px) 100vw, 386px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So while a plaid shirt might cost you $44.50, peace is free. This makes sense only if &#8220;peace&#8221; has been turned into a completely apolitical feel-good abstraction, as opposed to an end result of social and political processes that require effort and may or may not be particularly cheap. But &#8220;peace&#8221; is, here, entirely empty of political meaning, so much so that the company could use the word in an ad without worrying that they would be accused of making a political statement about, say, either of the two wars the U.S. is currently engaged in, or the Israel\/Palestine conflict, or any number of other situations that a politicized meaning of peace might bring to mind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw this ad last year but forgot to post it. What I find interesting is the way that &#8220;peace&#8221; has been both stripped of any real meaning and presented as something easy to achieve: So while a plaid shirt might cost you $44.50, peace is free. This makes sense only if &#8220;peace&#8221; has been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[23384,254,85,309],"class_list":["post-30933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-social-construction-discourselanguage","tag-holidays","tag-politics","tag-warmilitary"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30933","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\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30933"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42140,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30933\/revisions\/42140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}