{"id":160,"date":"2011-05-11T18:14:28","date_gmt":"2011-05-11T23:14:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidmcelroy.org\/?p=160"},"modified":"2020-01-26T00:17:45","modified_gmt":"2020-01-26T06:17:45","slug":"still-relevant-six-years-later-were-the-government-and-youre-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=160","title":{"rendered":"Still relevant six years later: &#8216;We&#8217;re the Government &#8212; and You&#8217;re Not&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I made this short film six years ago, I would have been happy to have it seen by a thousand people and have it make it into a film festival or two. After all this time, though, it&#8217;s been seen by close to 300,000 times on YouTube and it made it into 20 film festivals. It was a very flawed first effort by someone who was clueless about what he was doing, but the efforts of some talented people working with me saved it. The film is a parody of what the U.S. government might release today to teach Americans how to be good citizens. It&#8217;s interesting that the same general ideas that applied to a Republican administration six years ago still apply to a Democratic administration today.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/102786376\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/102786376\">\u201cWe\u2019re the Government \u2014 and You\u2019re Not\u201d<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/user7118402\">David McElroy<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I made this short film six years ago, I would have been happy to have it seen by a thousand people and have it make it into a film festival or two. After all this time, though, it&#8217;s been seen by close to 300,000 times on YouTube and it made it into 20 film <a href=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=160\" class=\"more-link\">Keep Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1x9iR-2A","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=160"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31133,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions\/31133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}