{"id":14297,"date":"2012-11-30T17:21:49","date_gmt":"2012-11-30T22:21:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2012\/11\/30\/14297.html"},"modified":"2018-03-13T19:04:59","modified_gmt":"2018-03-14T00:04:59","slug":"chairs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2012\/11\/30\/chairs\/","title":{"rendered":"Chairs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Can somebody please explain to me about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aidschair.org.\/index.htm\">the AIDS chairs<\/a>? My employer observed World AIDS Day (early, which makes sense because the weekend starts on Thursday around here) by getting eighty-eight red ribbon-chairs and setting them out on the lawn. Nobody sat on them. There wasn&#8217;t (as far as I can tell from the press release) a fund-raiser. There were just these chairs, empty chairs, looking like red ribbons, sitting on the grass.\n<p>It was unsettling.\n<p>Was that the purpose? Just, one day, chairs, and the next day, nothing?\n<P>The site says that the chairs symbolize &#8220;the urgent need to re-engage and re-energize the AIDS movement&#8221;, which makes me think that they are aiming for something more than unsettling. But maybe unsettling is good? I&#8217;m used to AIDS stuff aiming at a combination of funny and angry (like <a href=\"http:\/\/inthesetimes.com\/uprising\/entry\/14241\/aids_activists_arrested_highlighting_the_naked_truth_about_budget_cuts\/\">this<\/a>) so my frame may be off. But I just don&#8217;t get it. Chairs? Just chairs? That look like red ribbons?\n<p>If any of y&#8217;all get it, can you explain it to me?\n<p><I>Tolerabimus quod tolerare debemus<\/I>,<br>-Vardibidian.\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Which Your Humble Blogger is perplexed. Perplexity! I am now making my perplexed face. See?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[192],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14297"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16747,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14297\/revisions\/16747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}