{"id":474,"date":"2006-05-12T22:28:37","date_gmt":"2006-05-12T21:28:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=474"},"modified":"2008-07-18T23:50:30","modified_gmt":"2008-07-18T22:50:30","slug":"army-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2006\/05\/12\/army-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Army Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/993\/1615\/1600\/buna2.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/05\/army_day.jpg\" id=\"image473\" alt=\"army_day.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Difficult to imagine ads like this one being produced any more, in innocence, at least. These days companies like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nightcharm.com\/imagesblog\/011306_gabbana.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">Dolce &amp; Gabbana<\/a> are confrontational in a manner that an earlier age would probably regard as outright porn. I&#8217;m happy with both examples although the painted quality of the soldiers ad lends itself to a higher degree of fantasy. <a href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/993\/1615\/1600\/buna.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">Another ad in same the series<\/a> features some rather stereotypical natives standing glumly in the background while the naked guys are frolicing. The South Pacific setting could easily be tweaked in a more interesting direction with the addition of some tikis and a volcano, something like a Genet-styled version of a <a href=\"http:\/\/markryden.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mark Ryden<\/a> painting, perhaps.<\/p>\n<p>Original link via <a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">Boing Boing<\/a> via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sexoteric.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sexoteric<\/a> via <a href=\"http:\/\/sexornot.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sexornot<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/the-gay-artists-archive\/\">The gay artists archive<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Difficult to imagine ads like this one being produced any more, in innocence, at least. These days companies like Dolce &amp; Gabbana are confrontational in a manner that an earlier age would probably regard as outright porn. I&#8217;m happy with both examples although the painted quality of the soldiers ad lends itself to a higher &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2006\/05\/12\/army-day\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Army Day&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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}},"categories":[2,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-gay"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-7E","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}