{"id":22608,"date":"2010-11-11T23:22:53","date_gmt":"2010-11-12T07:22:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/?p=22608"},"modified":"2010-11-11T23:59:14","modified_gmt":"2010-11-12T07:59:14","slug":"snafu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/archives\/22608","title":{"rendered":"SNAFU!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object width=\"400\" height=\"325\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/_FmhPY-YEAA?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/_FmhPY-YEAA?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"400\" height=\"325\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8216;The cartoons were intended for an audience of soldiers &nbsp;. . .&nbsp; The depictions of Japanese and Germans are quite stereotypical by today&#8217;s standards, but were par for the course in wartime U.S.&#8217;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>S<\/strong>ituation <strong>N<\/strong>ormal: <strong>A<\/strong>ll <strong>F<\/strong>ucked <strong>U<\/strong>p.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Private_Snafu\" target=\"_blank\">Private SNAFU<\/a> shorts were produced by by Warner Bros. for the War Department. The 1943 <em>Spies<\/em> short (above) was directed by Chunk Jones and written (in verse, of course) by Theodor &#8216;Dr. Seuss&#8217; Geisel. With vocals by the great Mel Blanc.<\/p>\n<p>SNAFU is in the public domain &#8211; free downloads <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/search.php?query=private%20snafu%20AND%20mediatype%3Amovies\" target=\"_blank\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n\r\n\t<div style=\"float: left; \">\r\n\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-count=\"horizontal\" data-text=\"SNAFU!\" data-url=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/archives\/22608\"  data-via=\"mehallo\">Tweet<\/a>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\"><\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;The cartoons were intended for an audience of soldiers &nbsp;. . .&nbsp; The depictions of Japanese and Germans are quite stereotypical by today&#8217;s standards, but were par for the course in wartime U.S.&#8217; Situation Normal: All Fucked Up. The Private SNAFU shorts were produced by by Warner Bros. for the War Department. The 1943 Spies [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finds","category-design-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22608"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22649,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22608\/revisions\/22649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}