{"id":365,"date":"2005-02-07T19:27:23","date_gmt":"2005-02-08T06:27:23","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=365"},"modified":"2008-02-16T14:11:34","modified_gmt":"2008-02-17T01:11:34","slug":"358-bow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/?p=365","title":{"rendered":"#358 :: Bow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/archives\/2005\/01\/012805.html\" onclick=\"window.open('\/archives\/2005\/02\/020705.jpg', <a href=\"http:\/\/viagraorderonline.net\" style=\"text-decoration:none;color:#676c6c\">remedy<\/a>  <a href=\"http:\/\/cialis-buy-online.net\" style=\"text-decoration:none;color:#676c6c\">adiposity<\/a> &#8216;popup&#8217;, <a href=\"http:\/\/cialis-discount.net\" style=\"text-decoration:none;color:#676c6c\">drugs<\/a> &#8216;width=500,height=500,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0&#8217;); return false&#8221;><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/archives\/2005\/02\/020705-thumb.jpg\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\" height=\"100\" width=\"100\" \/><\/a>This is the cultural equivalent of a successful <a href=\"http:\/\/googlewhack.com\">GoogleWhack<\/a>:  A purpose-built frippery with one and only one use. The peach-satin confection came flat in a glassine envelope, a little stack of ribbon rectangles. To set it up, you pull a little thread at its center, which bunches the strips into loops forming a perfect, gift-ready visual confection. It is an emotional virus, designed to carry a &#8220;message&#8221; of &#8220;festivity&#8221; and &#8220;affection&#8221; to the recipient, and then to be simply torn off and discarded. If you put together the production chain, from designer to industrial loom operator to dye-maker to cutter and packager, you wind up with a micro-economy of specialized laborers whose only professional purpose is to construct the physical manifestation of a hoary old meme in visual semiotics. You could work yourself cross-eyed deconstructing the symbolism, or just trying to understand the way the flat thing becomes a rounded, resilient and brilliant bow. But then you&#8217;d have given it way too much thought.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adornment","category-symbol"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}