{"id":2014,"date":"2008-09-26T23:19:29","date_gmt":"2008-09-27T02:19:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=2014"},"modified":"2008-09-26T23:35:31","modified_gmt":"2008-09-27T02:35:31","slug":"washing-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=2014","title":{"rendered":"Washing Machine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcap\">I<\/span> was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?attachment_id=2015\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2015\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/wa_shing_ma_chine-96x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"wa_shing_ma_chine\" width=\"96\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-2015\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/wa_shing_ma_chine-96x150.jpg 96w, http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/wa_shing_ma_chine-193x300.jpg 193w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 96px) 100vw, 96px\" \/><\/a> watching that story unfold about that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/news\/story\/economists-send-open-letter-congress\/story.aspx?guid={66D640AC-1FC7-41C0-AD84-47BC1B7A5D6E}&#038;dist=hppr\">700 billion dollars bail-out<\/a>, and I was just thinking, hey, maybe all they need is a washing machine.\n<\/p>\n<p>I saw the political theatre of American presidential elections where a presidential candidate suddenly presented himself as a champion of &#8220;Main Street&#8221;, and I thought, hey, maybe all he used was a washing machine.\n<\/p>\n<p>I read that the US president had been talking to the French president about the financial problems, and for a second I thought that maybe, they both really needed a washing machine. Or rather a freedom machine.\n<\/p>\n<p>And, then I ended up looking at this excellent YouTube video of a live performance of <a href=\"http:\/\/ca.youtube.com\/watch?v=IAerMCzc9os\">Sonic Youth&#8217;s &#8216;Washing Machine&#8217;<\/a>. For a second, it reminded me of that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1949\">concert I attended in the early 90s<\/a> and I thought by myself, what one can do with cloth pins.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was watching that story unfold about that 700 billion dollars bail-out, and I was just thinking, hey, maybe all they need is a washing machine. I saw the political theatre of American presidential elections where a presidential candidate suddenly &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=2014\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[160,325],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2014"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2014\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}