{"id":6,"date":"2007-12-17T07:38:46","date_gmt":"2007-12-17T12:38:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greatsociety.org\/?p=6"},"modified":"2018-10-31T15:02:57","modified_gmt":"2018-10-31T19:02:57","slug":"its-only-7am-and-im-bored","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greatsociety.org\/?p=6","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s only 7am and I&#8217;m bored"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Because I do nothing at work, I have plenty of time to obsessively keep up to date on a handful of useless blogs.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>One is the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedctraveler.com\" title=\"DC Traveler\" target=\"_blank\">DC Traveler<\/a>.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>It\u2019s both pretentious and informative!<span>\u00a0 <\/span>The \u201cinsider\u2019s travel guide\u201d that rarely strays from the tourist path.<span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><!--more--> I\u2019m trying to think what my DC travel guide would be like.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>Probably just dive bars within three minutes of a Metro stop.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>When visiting DC, be sure to go and sit at the far back of the Raven and drink all day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">I don\u2019t know if the Raven still exists.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>Last I went to <st1 :city w:st=\"on\"><\/st1><st1 :place w:st=\"on\">Columbia Heights<\/st1> it looked like Little Suburbia.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>I think a real DC travel guide should include observation spots for the ongoing trail of tears as the blacks and other minorities are gentrified out of existence and deposited in PG County, Maryland\u2019s own Warsaw Ghetto.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">DC Traveler\u2019s recent update is on the Vietnam Woman\u2019s Memorial, which is all about the women of <st1 :country-region w:st=\"on\"><\/st1><st1 :place w:st=\"on\">Vietnam<\/st1> posing nude for a full color, 16 month calendar. <span>\u00a0<\/span>Now, this is one of those great, unknown memorials.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>Mainly because nobody really cares.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>Though I was pleased to see the somewhat obscure note that Glenna Goodacre was the designer.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>She\u2019s responsible for the somewhat mischievous-looking Sacagawea on the face of our little-used dollar coin.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>The reverse side was designed by a man, though.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>Some in-house puke at the Mint, actually, so it didn\u2019t even rank a proper designer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greatsociety.org\/uploads\/userfiles\/3\/vietnam-womens-memorial-thumb.jpg\" align=\"left\" height=\"620\" width=\"464\" \/>My problem with the Vietnam Woman\u2019s Memorial is that it just seems a bit too creepy.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>Let\u2019s look at the statue of the two medical types helping out the wounded soldier.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>Tell me if I\u2019m wrong, but isn\u2019t that chick ripping his heart out while the other one is calling down some supernatural monster from the sky?<span>\u00a0 <\/span>Pretty clear to me\u2026we\u2019re seeing some sort of witchcraft ritual here.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>It\u2019s nothing to do with <st1 :country-region w:st=\"on\"><\/st1><st1 :place w:st=\"on\">Vietnam<\/st1>.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>Don\u2019t be fooled by this memorial \u2013 these girls are dangerous.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because I do nothing at work, I have plenty of time to obsessively keep up to date on a handful of useless blogs.\u00a0 One is the DC Traveler.\u00a0 It\u2019s both pretentious and informative!\u00a0 The \u201cinsider\u2019s travel guide\u201d that rarely strays &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/greatsociety.org\/?p=6\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">It&#8217;s only 7am and I&#8217;m bored<\/span> Read More 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