{"id":26,"date":"2008-08-07T09:37:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-07T14:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.familyofgoldsteins.com\/?p=26"},"modified":"2008-08-07T09:37:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-07T14:37:00","slug":"theres-a-war-going-on-for-your-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.familyofgoldsteins.com\/?p=26","title":{"rendered":"There&#039;s A War Going on for Your Mind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=\"Calibri\" size=\"2\">I love the lyrics from this song from the Flobots. Even if you don&#8217;t like them, you have to appreciate these lyrics given the current state of our society:<\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><font face=\"Calibri\" size=\"2\">There&#8217;s a war going on for your mind       <br \/>Media mavens mount surgical strikes from trapper keeper collages and online magazine racks        <br \/>Cover girl cutouts throw up pop-up ads        <br \/>Infecting victims with silicone shrapnel        <br \/>Worldwide passenger pigeons deploy paratroopers        <br \/>Now it&#8217;s raining pornography        <br \/>Lovers take shelter        <br \/>Post-production debutantes pursue you in nascar chariots        <br \/>They construct ransom letters from biblical passages and bleed mascara into holy water supplies        <br \/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Calibri\" size=\"2\">There&#8217;s a war going on for your mind       <br \/>Industry insiders slang test tube babies to corporate crackheads        <br \/>They flash logos and blast ghettos        <br \/>Their embroidered neckties say &quot;stop snitchin&#8217;&quot;        <br \/>Conscious rappers and whistleblowers get stitches made of acupuncture needles and marionette strings        <br \/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Calibri\" size=\"2\">There is a war going on for your mind       <br \/>Professional wrestlers and vice presidents want you to believe them        <br \/>The desert sky is their bluescreen        <br \/>They superimpose explosions        <br \/>They shout at you        <br \/>&quot;pay no attention to the men behind the barbed curtain        <br \/>Nor the craters beneath the draped flags        <br \/>Those hoods are there for your protection        <br \/>And meteors these days are the size of corpses        <br \/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Calibri\" size=\"2\">There&#8217;s a war going on for your mind       <br \/>We are the insurgents<\/font><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love the lyrics from this song from the Flobots. Even if you don&#8217;t like them, you have to appreciate these lyrics given the current state of our society: There&#8217;s a war going on for your mind Media mavens mount surgical strikes from trapper keeper collages and online magazine racks Cover girl cutouts throw up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.familyofgoldsteins.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.familyofgoldsteins.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.familyofgoldsteins.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.familyofgoldsteins.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.familyofgoldsteins.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.familyofgoldsteins.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.familyofgoldsteins.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.familyofgoldsteins.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.familyofgoldsteins.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}