{"id":1647,"date":"2010-02-11T21:20:55","date_gmt":"2010-02-12T05:20:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/?p=1647"},"modified":"2010-02-11T21:20:55","modified_gmt":"2010-02-12T05:20:55","slug":"mr-softie-is-still-missing-as-is-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/2010\/02\/11\/mr-softie-is-still-missing-as-is-democracy\/","title":{"rendered":"Mr Softie is still missing, as is Democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I got a huge kick out of a funny poster that playfully references the ubiquitous &#8220;missing cat&#8221; notices in my Fairfield neighborhood. (For an earlier note, see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.darrenbarefoot.com\/\">Darren Barefoot<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.darrenbarefoot.com\/archives\/2009\/04\/hes-heavier-set.html\">who wrote about Mr. Softie<\/a>, a &#8220;heavier set&#8221; cat gone missing last year in our &#8216;hood.)<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s poster is truly brilliant. Check it out&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\n<div style=\"width: 334px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/skitch.com\/yule1\/nw946\/iphoto\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" \" title=\"Democracy: lost!\" src=\"http:\/\/img.skitch.com\/20100212-xdd8wun2w8nim5maykq1yegr7y.jpg\" alt=\"Democracy: lost!\" width=\"324\" height=\"425\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Democracy: lost!<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">*<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Just for the record, I&#8217;m taking no political sides myself (and yeah, go ahead and hate me for that) &#8211; just sayin&#8217; that (aside from the misplaced semi-colon) this is a damn good place-specific political poster that hits all the right notes for <em>this<\/em> particular neighborhood.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A missing cat poster in Fairfield&#8217;s Cook Street Village makes a very funny and effective political statement. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":311,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1751,1826,678,1651,96,880,1418],"tags":[14765,2117,14767,14766,64767],"class_list":["post-1647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advertising","category-guerilla_politics","category-ideas","category-local_not_global","category-politics","category-scenes_victoria","category-victoria","tag-cats","tag-democracy","tag-gordon_campbell","tag-stephen_harper","tag-victoria"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/311"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1647"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1650,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1647\/revisions\/1650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}