{"id":7551,"date":"2010-11-25T03:22:58","date_gmt":"2010-11-25T03:22:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/?p=7551"},"modified":"2010-11-25T04:27:50","modified_gmt":"2010-11-25T04:27:50","slug":"thanksgiving-mantra-how-many-more-have-to-die-harmony-moore-has-to-die","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/2010\/11\/25\/thanksgiving-mantra-how-many-more-have-to-die-harmony-moore-has-to-die\/","title":{"rendered":"Thanksgiving Mantra &#8211; How Many More Have To Die? (Harmony Moore Has To Die!)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fadingad.com\/blog\/nepa\/pocono_turkey04.jpg?resize=500%2C602\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"602\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pocono Turkey 2008 \u00a9 Frank H. Jump<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Back in the old days of ACT UP demos when I was an active participant in the endless chanting &#8220;How many more have to die?&#8221; &#8211; some of the more cynical of us (Ron Goldberg- are you listening?) would ask &#8211; <em>Who is Harmony Moore and WHY does she have to die?<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On a much lighter note, there aren&#8217;t as many turkeys being slaughtered as chickens &#8211; and most of the almost defrosted\u00a0turkeys to be devoured tomorrow (can&#8217;t wait to get mine stuffed and in the oven) have already died months ago.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">There&#8217;s another week until World AIDS Day and not one day goes by when I&#8217;m not reminded I&#8217;ve been living with a killer virus for over half of my life. That being said, I do have much for which to be thankful-<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>I am gainfully employed &amp; fulfilled by my career in a period of the worst unemployment in decades.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m in a loving &amp; committed relationship with the love of my life for over 21 years.<\/li>\n<li>My health, aside from producing outrageously high triglycerides, is better than the average fifty year old American man.<\/li>\n<li>And although I do experience the blues more than I ever have before, the bouts aren&#8217;t debilitating and I always manage to rebound.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It doesn&#8217;t look like I&#8217;m going to be releasing my <em>Fading Ad<\/em> book on World AIDS Day as planned. I don&#8217;t want to rush and I&#8217;ve been very busy with the service learning curriculum around HIV\/AIDS I&#8217;ve been developing at my school. Perhaps after the holidays will be a more realistic goal, even though I would have liked the eBook out for the holiday buying season. Our recent loss of data with BLUEHOST (who takes no responsibility for the server failure) has been remedied. Fortunately I&#8217;ve been a digital pack rat and had almost all of my files backed up (somewhere).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Well, I&#8217;m not usually much of a talker [here] and posting daily photos (obsessively) is really my fort\u00e9, so I won&#8217;t bore you with any more of my psychobabble. But do drop me a line and let me know it isn&#8217;t all for naught. Happily, my friends are no longer dying in droves and it looks as if I&#8217;ll be around at least until retirement. \u00a0I must reiterate that The Fading Ad Campaign remains a metaphor for survival, if not just from AIDS but from disenchantment- from a wearing down of that na\u00efve optimism that has buoyed me for these first fifty years &#8211; and a metaphor of surviving a rabid anti-Progressive, Right Wing movement that is hell-bent on causing this Administration&#8217;s failure. Turkeys!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in the old days of ACT UP demos when I was an active participant in the endless chanting &#8220;How many more have to die?&#8221; &#8211; some of the more cynical of us (Ron Goldberg- are you listening?) would ask &#8211; Who is Harmony Moore and WHY does she have to die? On a much [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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":[738,739,1243,1499,1556],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hivaids-education","category-hivaids-policies","category-propaganda","category-thanksgiving","category-turkeys"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pXBbJ-1XN","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7551\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}