{"id":716,"date":"2002-11-21T00:51:11","date_gmt":"2002-11-21T08:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2002\/11\/21\/716.html"},"modified":"2002-11-21T00:51:11","modified_gmt":"2002-11-21T08:51:11","slug":"big-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2002\/11\/21\/big-science\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Science"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Recently picked up Laurie Anderson's seminal album <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/~jimmyd\/laurie-anderson\/interpretation\/lyrics\/bs.html\"><cite>Big Science<\/cite><\/a> on CD, and \"O Superman\" just came on iTunes.  I've been very lax in providing political commentary in this space lately, so just a little taste, though the lyrics work even less well without music than for most songs:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This is the hand,<br>\nthe hand that takes.<br>\nHere come the planes.<br>\nThey're American planes. Made in America.<br>\nSmoking or non-smoking?<br>\nAnd the voice said:<br>\nNeither snow nor rain<br>\nnor gloom of night<br>\nshall stay these couriers<br>\nfrom the swift completion<br>\nof their appointed rounds.<br>\n'Cause when love is gone, there's always justice.<br>\nAnd when justice is gone, there's always force.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>An unusually overtly political song from Anderson; she had other songs in that period with dystopic views of technology, but not usually so directly connected to geopolitics.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently picked up Laurie Anderson&#8217;s seminal album Big Science on CD, and &#8220;O Superman&#8221; just came on iTunes. I&#8217;ve been&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}