{"id":318,"date":"2004-01-20T09:56:01","date_gmt":"2004-01-20T16:56:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stefangeens.com\/?p=318"},"modified":"2004-01-20T09:56:01","modified_gmt":"2004-01-20T16:56:01","slug":"how-very-unfortunate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/2004\/01\/how-very-unfortunate\/","title":{"rendered":"How very unfortunate"},"content":{"rendered":"

I thought I’d seen her somewhere before. She was on the posters advertising the exhibit. I didn’t put two and two together until this morning when my Subway reading, Metro<\/a> (PDF), splayed this picture on the cover<\/b>Update 18.45 CET:<\/b><\/span> The posters of her are coming down<\/a>.<\/span>:<\/p>\n

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Yes, it says “Making Differences” across her. Remind you of anything?<\/p>\n

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There is an advertising agency in Stockholm populated with numbskulls. Not only do you go rip off an original idea, you then apply it in the manner of a mastodont, barrelling into one of the most tragic and precarious conflicts around. Your imperfect command of the English language means that your clever sloganeering comes off exactly wrong; if “Making Differences” is a play on “making a difference”, you should know that the phrase implies an endorsement, or at best is nasty sarcasm.<\/p>\n

In today’s interconnected world, physical distances no longer figure in how crude you can be about other people’s tragedies. You can no longer Think Indifferent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I thought I’d seen her somewhere before. She was on the posters advertising the exhibit. I didn’t put two and two together until this morning when my Subway reading, Metro (PDF), splayed this picture on the coverUpdate 18.45 CET: The … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7eNhC-58","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}