{"id":16693,"date":"2012-11-08T03:46:13","date_gmt":"2012-11-08T03:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=16693"},"modified":"2012-11-08T03:46:13","modified_gmt":"2012-11-08T03:46:13","slug":"graphical-footnotes-2-the-mourning-after","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=16693","title":{"rendered":"Graphical footnotes, 2: the mourning after"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[ by <strong>Charles Cameron<\/strong> &#8212; an example of the &#8220;serpent bites own serpent self&#8221; paradox from the 2012 election ]<br \/>\n.<\/p>\n<p>This is offered as a footnote to my earlier post on self-referential aka recursive paradoxes. It is the bottom ten percent, at full width, of the mourning band <strong>Pamela Geller<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com\/atlas_shrugs\/2012\/11\/the-day-after-america.html\">put on her Atlas Shrugs 2000 site<\/a> when she learned of President Obama&#8217;s victory in the 2012 Presidential election.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/America-took-revenge-on-America-at-one-tenth-full-height.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/America-took-revenge-on-America-at-one-tenth-full-height.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"America took revenge on America at one tenth full height\" width=\"600\" height=\"500\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16697\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/America-took-revenge-on-America-at-one-tenth-full-height.png 600w, https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/America-took-revenge-on-America-at-one-tenth-full-height-300x250.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n.<\/p>\n<p>For the record, I do not endorse Ms Geller&#8217;s entirely negative view of Islam &#8212; a vast and vastly diverse world religion with a long and storied history &#8212; nor for that matter her commentary on the election &#8212; <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>UPDATE: Obama won. And America, land of the free, home of the brave, died tonight.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>nor the header for the post that consisted entirely of the graphic above &#8212; with the black extending an unremitting nine more times the height shown here:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>THE DAY AFTER AMERICA<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>To be blunt: methinks the lady jumpeth shark.<\/p>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p>What does interest me more than a little is the self-reflexive paradox with which she phrases her insight that America just killed itself &#8212; an example of the kind of paradox I was talking about in my post <A HREF=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=10981\">Numbers by the numbers: one<\/A>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ by Charles Cameron &#8212; an example of the &#8220;serpent bites own serpent self&#8221; paradox from the 2012 election ] . This is offered as a footnote to my earlier post on self-referential aka recursive paradoxes. It is the bottom ten percent, at full width, of the mourning band Pamela Geller put on her Atlas [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[361,321,526,415,753,499,183,840,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-america","category-blogosphere","category-charles-cameron","category-elections","category-islam","category-islamic-world","category-obama","category-paradox","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16693"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16727,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16693\/revisions\/16727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}