{"id":1011,"date":"2014-01-28T16:58:15","date_gmt":"2014-01-28T21:58:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/?p=1011"},"modified":"2014-01-25T10:07:56","modified_gmt":"2014-01-25T15:07:56","slug":"strange-as-a-clockwork-apple-pie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/?p=1011","title":{"rendered":"Strange as a Clockwork Apple Pie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So if you were to look at the bottom half of the US Olympic team&#8217;s 2014 uniforms (while perhaps holding up a hand to obscure the top half), you&#8217;d no doubt think &#8220;Oh no, Ralph Lauren has, for some reason, decided to call forth the look of Stanley Kubrick&#8217;s adaptation of <em>A Clockwork Orange<\/em>, and made our fine athletes look like a bunch of ultraviolent droogs!&#8221;\u00a0 But if you then moved your hand to take in the top half of the uniform, you&#8217;d realize that things were much, much worse:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1012\" alt=\"clockworkOrange\" src=\"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/clockworkOrange.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"384\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/clockworkOrange.jpg 640w, https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/clockworkOrange-300x180.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>So, will the story of this team have a &#8220;21st chapter&#8221; of redemption and maturity, or will it end on a darker note, like the movie?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So if you were to look at the bottom half of the US Olympic team&#8217;s 2014 uniforms (while perhaps holding up a hand to obscure the top half), you&#8217;d no doubt think &#8220;Oh no, Ralph Lauren has, for some reason, decided to call forth the look of Stanley Kubrick&#8217;s adaptation of A Clockwork Orange, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-writing-things"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}