{"id":76,"date":"2008-11-03T19:00:22","date_gmt":"2008-11-04T02:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zombietime.com\/zomblog\/?p=76"},"modified":"2008-11-03T19:11:47","modified_gmt":"2008-11-04T02:11:47","slug":"berkeley-land-of-happy-t-shirts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zombietime.com\/zomblog\/?p=76","title":{"rendered":"Berkeley, land of happy T-shirts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At a pro-Obama event in Berkeley a few days  ago, I spotted these two T-shirts:<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.zombietime.com\/zomblog\/wp-content\/images\/IMG_7264.JPG\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nHere&#8217;s a woman showing her love for Fallujah, the one-time Al Qaeda stronghold in Iraq. And if you think she&#8217;s showing her support for the new democratic pacified Fallujah, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zombietime.com\/sf_rally_april_10_2004\/signs\/120-2038_IMG.JPG\" target=\"_blank\">dream<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zombietime.com\/sf_rally_april_10_2004\/signs\/121-2159_IMG.JPG\" target=\"_blank\">on<\/a>. I&#8217;m quite sure the shirt is a souvenir from 2004, when siding with the &#8220;insurgents&#8221; in Fallujah against American troops was <em>de rigeuer<\/em> in Berkeley.<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.zombietime.com\/zomblog\/wp-content\/images\/IMG_7271.JPG\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nHere she is paying a visit to the &#8220;Department of Peace&#8221; booth set up by some Obama supporters.<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.zombietime.com\/zomblog\/wp-content\/images\/IMG_7279.JPG\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nA couple minutes later, leaving the event, I ran into this guy with his &#8220;Defend Oakland&#8221; shirt featuring a machine gun. And no, he&#8217;s not talking about defending it from criminals &#8212; he&#8217;s talking about defending it from the <em>police<\/em>. The slogan and the concept are left over from the Black Panther era.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At a pro-Obama event in Berkeley a few days ago, I spotted these two T-shirts: Here&#8217;s a woman showing her love for Fallujah, the one-time Al Qaeda stronghold in Iraq. And if you think she&#8217;s showing her support for the new democratic pacified Fallujah, dream on. I&#8217;m quite sure the shirt is a souvenir from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zombietime.com\/zomblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zombietime.com\/zomblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zombietime.com\/zomblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zombietime.com\/zomblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zombietime.com\/zomblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zombietime.com\/zomblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zombietime.com\/zomblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zombietime.com\/zomblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zombietime.com\/zomblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}