{"id":14444,"date":"2011-10-07T10:13:29","date_gmt":"2011-10-07T14:13:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=14444"},"modified":"2011-10-07T10:13:29","modified_gmt":"2011-10-07T14:13:29","slug":"shiny-plastic-heroes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/shiny-plastic-heroes\/","title":{"rendered":"Shiny plastic heroes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The shrines to Princess Diana were bad enough but, such is the price of technological progress, now we have iShrines erected to Steve Jobs along with <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-14445\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/article-2046297-0E42406A00000578-183_964x486.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"340\" height=\"171\" \/>weeping women and sniffling men.<\/p>\n<p>We do need heroes, of course, but we seem to have developed an uncanny knack for picking the wrong people: the day Diana died, Mother Teresa died; the day President Kennedy died, C. S. Lewis died. On October 5<sup>th<\/sup>, 2011, Steve Jobs died; so did Arthur Leroy Brooks of Stratford but he is ignored even though he didn\u2019t fill the world with irritating mobile phones whose batteries can\u2019t be changed unless you send them back to the factory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The shrines to Princess Diana were bad enough but, such is the price of technological progress, now we have iShrines erected to Steve Jobs along with weeping women and sniffling men. We do need heroes, of course, but we seem &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/shiny-plastic-heroes\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":16,"footnotes":""},"categories":[259],"tags":[1487],"class_list":["post-14444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pop-culture","tag-steve-jobs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14444\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}