{"id":590,"date":"2017-05-10T04:43:55","date_gmt":"2017-05-10T08:43:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/?p=590"},"modified":"2017-05-10T04:43:55","modified_gmt":"2017-05-10T08:43:55","slug":"seriously-the-guy-has-a-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/american-dreamers\/seriously-the-guy-has-a-point\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;seriously, the guy has a point&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I thought I would share another fascinating\u00a0article that I read a few weeks back, about <em>Fearless Girl<\/em> and <em>Charging Bull<\/em> in Bowling Green Park, Lower Manhattan. The author, Greg Fallis, brings to discussion the power of symbolism\u00a0and the role of commercialization in the appropriation and exploitation of\u00a0meaning.<\/p>\n<p>I realize this article doesn&#8217;t\u00a0(directly) tie to what we&#8217;ve been talking about in class recently and might be more of a &#8216;class links&#8217;-type find. However, I think Fallis&#8217;\u00a0greater\u00a0point\u2013\u2013that meaning is situational\u2013\u2013is one that certainly applies to different\u00a0aspects of the\u00a0Dream as we&#8217;ve looked at it.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"Q3q3O2c3kj\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/gregfallis.com\/2017\/04\/14\/seriously-the-guy-has-a-point\/\">seriously, the guy has a&nbsp;point<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;seriously, the guy has a&nbsp;point&#8221; &#8212; gregfallis.com\" src=\"https:\/\/gregfallis.com\/2017\/04\/14\/seriously-the-guy-has-a-point\/embed\/#?secret=J2JDGXe1O6#?secret=Q3q3O2c3kj\" data-secret=\"Q3q3O2c3kj\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I thought I would share another fascinating\u00a0article that I read a few weeks back, about Fearless Girl and Charging Bull in Bowling Green Park, Lower Manhattan. The author, Greg Fallis, brings to discussion the power of symbolism\u00a0and the role of commercialization in the appropriation and exploitation of\u00a0meaning. I realize this article doesn&#8217;t\u00a0(directly) tie to what [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":394,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-american-dreamers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/394"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}