{"id":31882,"date":"2021-01-13T12:34:37","date_gmt":"2021-01-13T18:34:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=31882"},"modified":"2021-01-13T12:34:37","modified_gmt":"2021-01-13T18:34:37","slug":"quote-of-the-day-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2021\/01\/13\/quote-of-the-day-11\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

Marie Griffith<\/a>, Director and John C. Danforth Distinguished Professor in the Humanities<\/p>\n

From multiple origins, a conglomeration of superhero narratives have converged, luring countless numbers of Americans to see themselves as, in Ross Douthat\u2019s words<\/a>, \u201cactors in a world-historical drama, saviors or re-founders of the American Republic.\u201d Analyzing the Capitol insurrectionist whose military gear included patches sporting slogans like \u201cArmor of God\u201d and \u201cGod will judge our enemies. We\u2019ll arrange the meeting,\u201d Peter Manseau marvels<\/a> at \u201cthe danger of comic book notions of faith meeting comic book notions of nation,\u201d concluding, \u201cWe are being held hostage by permanent adolescents.\u201d The armed so-called freedom fighters are doing their best to bring their comic book, their superhero movie, their violent video game, or their Book of Revelation revenge fantasy (isn\u2019t it all the same?) to real life, and their target list includes all of us who don\u2019t accept their reality.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Great. We’re under assault from pathological comic book nerds. It’s a grim humor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Marie Griffith, Director and John C. Danforth Distinguished Professor in the Humanities From multiple origins, a conglomeration of superhero narratives have converged, luring countless numbers of Americans to see themselves as, in Ross Douthat\u2019s words, \u201cactors in a world-historical drama, saviors or re-founders of the American Republic.\u201d Analyzing the Capitol \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31882"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31883,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31882\/revisions\/31883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}