{"id":9738,"date":"2006-11-08T11:30:37","date_gmt":"2006-11-08T18:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2006\/11\/08\/dawn-of-the-dems.html"},"modified":"2006-11-08T11:30:37","modified_gmt":"2006-11-08T18:30:37","slug":"dawn_of_the_dems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/11\/08\/dawn_of_the_dems.html","title":{"rendered":"Dawn of the Dems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.average-bear.com\/archive\/009127.html\" target=\"_blank\">Doyce<\/a> cites an an Amazon.com snippet during his review of <em>Dawn of the Dead:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#202020\"> <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><font color=\"#202020\"><\/p>\n<p>The Zombie Archetype easily accommodates almost any satire, but tends to focus on mockery of crass consumerism, blind patriotism, anti-war (or anti-militarism) sentiment, fear of pandemic disease, and science-run-amok\u2026 all of which saw a lot of satirization in the last four years, as well as in the eighties. All horror&#8211;even the worst horror&#8211;is a response to the specific pressures and issues of its era (see also: all fiction).<\/p>\n<p>The two main eras of zombie-centric books and film coincide with consecutive terms of Republican presidents.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats, conversely, tend to inspire vampire films.<\/p>\n<p><\/font><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Not sure if it&#8217;s true (the particular political timing), but it sure sounds good.<\/p>\n<p><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Doyce cites an an Amazon.com snippet during his review of Dawn of the Dead: The Zombie Archetype easily accommodates almost any satire, but tends to focus on mockery of crass&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_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":[41,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-movies","category-politics-law"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":19211,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/11\/16\/zombie-apocalypse-or-how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-the-brains.html","url_meta":{"origin":9738,"position":0},"title":"ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE! 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