{"id":19158,"date":"2025-01-01T16:39:20","date_gmt":"2025-01-01T20:39:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/?p=19158"},"modified":"2026-01-17T15:50:29","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T19:50:29","slug":"american-janus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/archives\/19158","title":{"rendered":"American Janus"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cMy father told me when I was a little boy that people in authority lie and the job in a democracy is to remain skeptical. I\u2019ve been science-based since I was a kid. Show me the evidence and I\u2019ll believe you, but I\u2019m not going to take the word of official narratives. The way you do research is not by asking authoritative figures what they think. Trusting experts is not a feature of science, and it\u2019s not a feature of democracy.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2014 Robert F Kennedy Jr<br \/>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>When I indulge the impulse to have a collage catharsis, the Fred Otnes influence of my editorial past often bubbles to the surface. So be it. Wishing everybody a new year brimming with creativity, marked by discernment, and devoid of fear!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Dixon_AmericanJanus.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Dixon_AmericanJanus.jpg\" title=\"American Janus ~ J A Dixon\" width=\"440\" height=\"387\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-19144\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Dixon_AmericanJanus.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Dixon_AmericanJanus-300x264.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Dixon_AmericanJanus-768x675.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 88%; line-height: 133%; margin-top: 407px; margin-bottom: 27px; color: gray; padding-left: 30px;\" align=\"left\"><strong><em>American Janus<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\ncollage catharsis by J A Dixon<br \/>\n11 x 10 inches<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cMy father told me when I was a little boy that people in authority lie and the job in a democracy is to remain skeptical. I\u2019ve been science-based since I was a kid. Show me the evidence and I\u2019ll believe you, but I\u2019m not going to take the word of official narratives. The way you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[251,45,161,36,13,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19158"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19158"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20353,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19158\/revisions\/20353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}