{"id":261,"date":"2009-05-06T08:20:32","date_gmt":"2009-05-06T15:20:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/blog\/?p=261"},"modified":"2009-05-06T08:34:13","modified_gmt":"2009-05-06T15:34:13","slug":"pro-capitalism-cartoon-from-1948","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/miriamposner.com\/blog\/pro-capitalism-cartoon-from-1948\/","title":{"rendered":"Pro-capitalism cartoon from 1948"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a public service, here&#8217;s &#8220;Going Places,&#8221; a 1948 cartoon digitized by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/index.php\">Internet Archive<\/a> that describes the benefits of capitalism. Others in the series: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/details\/MakeMine1948\">&#8220;Make Mine Freedom&#8221;<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/details\/Destinat1956\">&#8220;Destination Earth&#8221;<\/a> (in which &#8220;Martian dissidents learn that oil and competition are the two things that make America great&#8221;). <em>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/\">BoingBoing<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"320\" \theight=\"252\" \tallowfullscreen=\"true\" \tallowscriptaccess=\"always\" \tsrc=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/flow\/flowplayer.commercial-3.0.5.swf\" \tw3c=\"true\" \tflashvars='config={\"key\":\"#$b6eb72a0f2f1e29f3d4\",\"playlist\":[{\"url\":\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/GoingPla1948\/format=Thumbnail?.jpg\",\"autoPlay\":true,\"scaling\":\"fit\"},{\"url\":\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/GoingPla1948\/GoingPla1948_512kb.mp4\",\"autoPlay\":false,\"accelerated\":true,\"scaling\":\"fit\"}],\"clip\":{\"autoPlay\":false,\"accelerated\":true,\"scaling\":\"fit\"},\"canvas\":{\"backgroundColor\":\"0x000000\",\"backgroundGradient\":\"none\"},\"plugins\":{\"audio\":{\"url\":\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/flow\/flowplayer.audio-3.0.3-dev.swf\"},\"controls\":{\"playlist\":false,\"fullscreen\":true,\"gloss\":\"high\",\"backgroundColor\":\"0x000000\",\"backgroundGradient\":\"medium\",\"sliderColor\":\"0x777777\",\"progressColor\":\"0x777777\",\"timeColor\":\"0xeeeeee\",\"durationColor\":\"0x01DAFF\",\"buttonColor\":\"0x333333\",\"buttonOverColor\":\"0x505050\"}},\"contextMenu\":[{\"Item GoingPla1948 at archive.org\":\"function()\"},\"-\",\"Flowplayer 3.0.5\"]}'> <\/embed><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a public service, here&#8217;s &#8220;Going Places,&#8221; a 1948 cartoon digitized by the Internet Archive that describes the benefits of capitalism. Others in the series: &#8220;Make Mine Freedom&#8221; and &#8220;Destination Earth&#8221; (in which &#8220;Martian dissidents learn that oil and competition are the two things that make America great&#8221;). Via BoingBoing.<\/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":[76,75,74],"class_list":["post-261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-capitalism","tag-cartoon","tag-funny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/miriamposner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/miriamposner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/miriamposner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miriamposner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miriamposner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/miriamposner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":265,"href":"https:\/\/miriamposner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261\/revisions\/265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/miriamposner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miriamposner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miriamposner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}