{"id":629,"date":"2004-10-14T18:38:51","date_gmt":"2004-10-14T23:38:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/2004\/10\/14\/idea-debates\/"},"modified":"2004-10-14T18:38:51","modified_gmt":"2004-10-14T23:38:51","slug":"idea-debates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/2004\/10\/14\/idea-debates\/","title":{"rendered":"idea: debates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Watching the presidential debate last night, I thought of something that might be interesting as performance or political spectacle.  The basic principle is to meld electoral\/mainstream politics with the politics of real people.  The idea is to make a fake debate between a real person and video footage of a political figure. The footage coud be from a real debate or pieced from past press footage of the politician.  A human moderator would offer the question.  The video footage of the politician would play and then the human debater would give a response.  One humerous piece that comes to mind would be a real person debating issues of anti-terrorism or problems with the US&#8217; criminal justice system against John Ashcroft singing the creepy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/video\/us\/2002\/02\/25\/ashcroft.sings.wbtv.med.html\">Let the Eagles Soar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watching the presidential debate last night, I thought of something that might be interesting as performance or political spectacle. The basic principle is to meld electoral\/mainstream politics with the politics of real people. The idea is to make a fake debate between a real person and video footage of a political figure. The footage coud&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/2004\/10\/14\/idea-debates\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">idea: debates<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":"","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}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4wnIz-a9","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}