{"id":3975,"date":"2011-05-15T19:14:29","date_gmt":"2011-05-15T19:14:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=3975"},"modified":"2011-05-15T19:24:53","modified_gmt":"2011-05-15T19:24:53","slug":"duelling-buses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=3975","title":{"rendered":"Duelling buses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[ by <strong>Charles Cameron<\/strong> &#8212; a contribution to media studies ]<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>Feeling more than usually (ir)religious?\u00a0 Wanna have an argument?<\/p>\n<p>Advertise on (or in) a bus!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/quo-buses-uk.jpg\" title=\"quo-buses-uk.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/quo-buses-uk.jpg\" alt=\"quo-buses-uk.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s how the <strong>British <\/strong>do it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>American humanists<\/strong> weren&#8217;t far behind their British cousins, either&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/quo-moshiach-bus.jpg\" title=\"quo-moshiach-bus.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/quo-moshiach-bus.jpg\" alt=\"quo-moshiach-bus.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The bus proclaiming the late <strong>Lubavitcher rebbe<\/strong> as King Moshiach goes with the motto: &#8220;Just add in goodness and kindness&#8221; &#8212; not so far from the humanists&#8217; &#8220;just be good for goodness&#8217; sake&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Ah, but what of <strong>Islam<\/strong>?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/quo-buses-islam-us.jpg\" title=\"quo-buses-islam-us.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/quo-buses-islam-us.jpg\" alt=\"quo-buses-islam-us.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This business of religious argument appears to be a never-ending story&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/quo-bus-inside-out.jpg\" title=\"quo-bus-inside-out.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/quo-bus-inside-out.jpg\" alt=\"quo-bus-inside-out.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Those buses will catch you coming or going, inside or out&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>*<\/p>\n<p>But you know, from a theological point of view, I think I&#8217;ll let the <strong>Metro bus company<\/strong> in that second Judgment Day image have the final word, commenting on the advertisement&#8217;s proclamation of <strong>May 21st<\/strong> &#8212; less than a week away as we speak &#8212; with its own small <strong>midrash <\/strong>in lights:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/not-in-service.jpg\" title=\"not-in-service.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/not-in-service.jpg\" alt=\"not-in-service.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ by Charles Cameron &#8212; a contribution to media studies ] . Feeling more than usually (ir)religious?\u00a0 Wanna have an argument? Advertise on (or in) a bus! That&#8217;s how the British do it. American humanists weren&#8217;t far behind their British cousins, either&#8230; The bus proclaiming the late Lubavitcher rebbe as King Moshiach goes with the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[360,526,139,473,533],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-21st-century","category-charles-cameron","category-media","category-propaganda","category-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3975","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=3975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3975\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}