{"id":1081,"date":"2009-12-14T18:21:04","date_gmt":"2009-12-14T22:21:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/?p=1081"},"modified":"2009-12-14T18:21:06","modified_gmt":"2009-12-14T22:21:06","slug":"avatar-its-progressive-politics-and-progressive-rock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/?p=1081","title":{"rendered":"Avatar &#8211; It&#8217;s Progressive Politics AND Progressive Rock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1082\" href=\"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/?attachment_id=1082\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1082\" title=\"avatar_pg87_a\" src=\"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/avatar_pg87_a.jpeg\" alt=\"avatar_pg87_a\" width=\"500\" height=\"211\" srcset=\"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/avatar_pg87_a.jpeg 500w, http:\/\/mpomy.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/avatar_pg87_a-300x126.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After seeing <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/charliejane\">Charlie Jane Anders<\/a> io9 <a href=\"http:\/\/io9.com\/5426120\/did-prog-rocks-greatest-artist-inspire-avatar-all-signs-point-to-yes\/gallery\/\">note comparing the concept art<\/a> for James Cameron&#8217;s upcoming masterpiece vanity project epic Avatar to Roger Dean&#8217;s album covers for the band Yes, there&#8217;s now no doubt that I&#8217;m in. \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/film\/2009\/dec\/10\/james-cameron-avatar-preview\">That was after learning that the film&#8217;s heart, politically speaking, appears to be in the right place<\/a>. \u00a0I guess I&#8217;m part of the blame-America-first-with-Mellotron crowd.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After seeing Charlie Jane Anders io9 note comparing the concept art for James Cameron&#8217;s upcoming masterpiece vanity project epic Avatar to Roger Dean&#8217;s album covers for the band Yes, there&#8217;s now no doubt that I&#8217;m in. \u00a0That was after learning &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/?p=1081\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12,23,264,115],"tags":[944,946,948,947,945],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1081"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1081"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1084,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1081\/revisions\/1084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}