{"id":47044,"date":"2015-10-11T16:57:24","date_gmt":"2015-10-11T16:57:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=47044"},"modified":"2015-10-11T16:57:24","modified_gmt":"2015-10-11T16:57:24","slug":"sunday-surprise-house-of-cards-meets-monks-and-sexy-riot-grrls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=47044","title":{"rendered":"Sunday surprise: House of Cards meets monks and sexy riot grrls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[ by <strong>Charles Cameron<\/strong> &#8212; wondering if the same mind (Beau Willimon?) suggested both? ]<br \/>\n.<\/p>\n<p>Two very different modes of factual reality found their ways into the fictional world of <em>House of Cards<\/em>, Season 3, American version, and I found the two choices pretty interesting. I&#8217;ve recently found clips relating to both on YouTube, so here they are for your consideration:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pussy Riot:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nyZVNTiXUfc\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>and <\/p>\n<p><strong>Tibetan monks:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5HhInqnBXxw\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Taking those two choices together is a bit like juxtaposing Gregorian chant and punk rock &#8212; which, come to think of it, is pretty close to what I was getting at in my first ever <strong>Riot Grrls<\/strong> post, <a href=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=12765\">Pussy Riot, Holy Foolishness and Monk Punk<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p>Contemplation and activism &#8212; poles apart, or one the mainspring for the other?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ by Charles Cameron &#8212; wondering if the same mind (Beau Willimon?) suggested both? ] . Two very different modes of factual reality found their ways into the fictional world of House of Cards, Season 3, American version, and I found the two choices pretty interesting. I&#8217;ve recently found clips relating to both on YouTube, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[526,835,215,702,480,88,179,91,946,699,1005,1,1054],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-charles-cameron","category-contemplative","category-culture","category-monasticism","category-music","category-putin","category-revolution","category-russia","category-sunday-surprise","category-tibet","category-tv","category-uncategorized","category-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47044","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=47044"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47089,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47044\/revisions\/47089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}