{"id":3383,"date":"2007-03-25T20:15:44","date_gmt":"2007-03-26T03:15:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/25\/help-dc-get-a-new-motto\/"},"modified":"2007-03-25T20:15:44","modified_gmt":"2007-03-26T03:15:44","slug":"help-dc-get-a-new-motto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/25\/help-dc-get-a-new-motto\/","title":{"rendered":"Help DC Get a New Motto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The District of Columbia is trying to fix its image, so\u00c2\u00a0it is spending $150,000 to choose a new motto for the city.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2007\/03\/24\/AR2007032400953_pf.html\">Washington Post article<\/a><\/strong> on the\u00c2\u00a0search for a catchy slogan\u00c2\u00a0made the mistake of permitting reader suggestions. Some of the initial proposals:<\/p>\n<p>*Where Some Tourists Come to Die<\/p>\n<p>*Zimbabwe Without the Passport<\/p>\n<p>*Eat here and get shot<\/p>\n<p>*The Most Self-Important City in the World<\/p>\n<p>It would be great to come up with a motto for DC that\u00c2\u00a0captured Washington&#8217;s role as headquarters of the war machine &amp; contemporary imperialism.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Suggestions\u00c2\u00a0are welcome at my <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/25\/help-washington-dc-choose-a-new-motto\/\">blog here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The District of Columbia is trying to fix its image, so\u00c2\u00a0it is spending $150,000 to choose a new motto for the city.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 A Washington Post article on the\u00c2\u00a0search for a catchy slogan\u00c2\u00a0made the mistake of permitting reader suggestions. Some of the initial proposals: *Where Some Tourists Come to Die *Zimbabwe Without the Passport *Eat here [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-3383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antiwar-movement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/45"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3383\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3383"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=3383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}