{"id":148,"date":"2002-12-23T15:15:15","date_gmt":"2002-12-23T20:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alevin.com\/?p=148"},"modified":"2002-12-23T15:15:15","modified_gmt":"2002-12-23T20:15:15","slug":"politics-and-lotr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/?p=148","title":{"rendered":"Politics and LOTR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2002\/12\/15\/movies\/15RUSH.html?ex=1041310800&amp;amp;amp;en=bddc1d4d28f7fe65&amp;amp;amp;ei=5062&amp;amp;amp;partner=GOOGLE\">New York Times,<\/a> Viggo Mortenson, who plays Aragorn in Lord of the Rings, wore a &#8220;No Blood for Oil&#8221; t-shirt on the Charlie Rose talk show to make it clear that the movie wasn&#8217;t US pro-war propaganda.<br \/>\nWhen I watched the movie, I did think about the danger of portraying the enemy as absolute evil at a time when our government is using the meme &#8211; er, bluntly, and portraying enemy armies as zombies when we have technology that removes soldiers far from the act of killing.<br \/>\nI hesitated to post this, since the political interpretations are more boring than the movie. The movie is fun as mythic fantasy; the idea of watching another movie in the series next time this year sounds promising at a time when the year ahead looks uncertain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the New York Times, Viggo Mortenson, who plays Aragorn in Lord of the Rings, wore a &#8220;No Blood for Oil&#8221; t-shirt on the Charlie Rose talk show to make it clear that the movie wasn&#8217;t US pro-war propaganda. When I watched the movie, I did think about the danger of portraying the enemy &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/?p=148\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Politics and LOTR&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prDRq-2o","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}