{"id":2950,"date":"2018-04-15T12:08:30","date_gmt":"2018-04-15T21:38:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flytippings.com\/?p=2950"},"modified":"2018-04-15T12:41:25","modified_gmt":"2018-04-15T22:11:25","slug":"icons-of-the-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flytippings.com\/?p=2950","title":{"rendered":"Icons of the West"},"content":{"rendered":"

When I was a child, westerns were extremely popular in both the television and at the movies.\u00a0 Cowboys were good (especially if they wore a white hat), Indians were mostly bad, Easterners were idiots and fops, and bankers (who were sometimes Easterners) were evil.\u00a0 That in a nutshell is the iconic and idealized version of the west, and it perhaps carries a tiny nugget of truth along with a great lump of mythologizing.<\/p>\n

Most importantly in the West of the imagination is the cowboy, that lone figure battling against the forces of nature and the encroaching civilization (darn those Easterners).\u00a0 Armed with a gun and a moral code, bringing law to the lawless frontier, whether it likes it or not.<\/p>\n

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Here’s a bit of art distilling the essence of the west into a single existential cowboy.\u00a0 \u00a0This art resides at the Santa Fe airport, and I am not entirely sure what it means.<\/p>\n

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Cowboys have to have someone to fight and overcome, so how about a studly Indian.\u00a0 This guy did not waste his time making arrows and such, he looks as though he hit the gym and worked out everyday.<\/p>\n

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Every cowboy and Indian needs a horse.\u00a0 The one the Greeks used to fool the Trojans was not nearly as splendid as this one.<\/p>\n

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Lest we forget that there were others inhabiting the West, here are some Mariachi ghosts to round out this small tour of icons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When I was a child, westerns were extremely popular in both the television and at the movies.\u00a0 Cowboys were good (especially if they wore a white hat), Indians were mostly bad, Easterners were idiots and fops, and bankers (who were sometimes Easterners) were evil.\u00a0 That in a nutshell is the iconic and idealized version of … Continue reading Icons of the West<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flytippings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flytippings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flytippings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flytippings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flytippings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2950"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/flytippings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2969,"href":"https:\/\/flytippings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2950\/revisions\/2969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flytippings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flytippings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flytippings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}