{"id":103464,"date":"2017-09-18T14:24:32","date_gmt":"2017-09-18T20:24:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/james-tv-and-maos-china\/"},"modified":"2017-09-18T14:24:32","modified_gmt":"2017-09-18T20:24:32","slug":"james-tv-and-maos-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/james-tv-and-maos-china\/","title":{"rendered":"James: TV and Mao\u2019s China"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=86abd843-4e4e-45d6-9213-d1d0b2ded0c3&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=86abd843-4e4e-45d6-9213-d1d0b2ded0c3&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=800 800w, https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=86abd843-4e4e-45d6-9213-d1d0b2ded0c3&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=1200 1200w, https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=86abd843-4e4e-45d6-9213-d1d0b2ded0c3&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=1800 1800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 2000px\" width=\"600\" height=\"571\" alt=\"Tom James\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Tom James<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>He ruled with a pretty hard hand, and demanded that everyone dress, speak and think alike.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve noticed, with the advent of 24-hour-a-day television \u2013 all the news, sports, weather and shopping channels \u2013 that a great deal of that is going on here at home.<\/p>\n<p>People talk about things based on whichever idea their chosen news channel sold them. They talk about the same weather no matter how far from home it is, and wear the same type of clothes because that\u2019s what they\u2019ve been told to wear.<\/p>\n<p>What do you suppose old Mao could have gotten done with that?<\/p>\n<p>I bet he\u2019s jealous. Same result; much less bloodshed.<\/p>\n<p>Watch yore topknot.<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_shirttail\">Ignacio\u2019s Tom James was riding horses before he could walk. Reach him at <a href=\"mailto:outlivedthemallsofar@gmail.com\">outlivedthemallsofar@gmail.com<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James He ruled with a pretty hard hand, and demanded that everyone dress, speak and think alike. I\u2019ve noticed, with the advent of 24-hour-a-day television \u2013 all the news, sports, weather and shopping channels \u2013 that a great deal of that is going on here at home. People talk about things based on whichever [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":103465,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5758,6334],"tags":[125],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-103464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-columnists","category-columnists-guest-columns","tag-newsletter-opinion"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103464\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103464"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=103464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}