{"id":13373,"date":"2005-06-27T23:10:00","date_gmt":"2005-06-27T23:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2005\/06\/27\/spirit-of-justice-freed-at-last\/"},"modified":"2005-06-27T23:10:00","modified_gmt":"2005-06-27T23:10:00","slug":"spirit-of-justice-freed-at-last","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2005\/06\/27\/spirit-of-justice-freed-at-last\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Spirit Of Justice&#8221; Freed At Last"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/news?tmpl=story&amp;u=\/nm\/20050627\/od_nm\/life_statues_dc\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blogicons\/deptofjusticsstatue.jpg\" \/><\/a><br \/>Attorney General Alberto Gonzales has finally authorized the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/news?tmpl=story&amp;u=\/nm\/20050627\/od_nm\/life_statues_dc\" target=\"_blank\">restoration of two statues at the Department Of Justice Great Hall to their previous state<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>After more than three years of being blocked by large blue drapes, two Art Deco aluminum statues of semi-nude figures in the building&rsquo;s Great Hall can be seen again.<\/p>\n<p>The &ldquo;Spirit of Justice&rdquo; and the &ldquo;Majesty of Justice,&rdquo; which loom over the stage in the Great Hall, were <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/americas\/1788845.stm\" target=\"_blank\">blocked from view by curtains<\/a> installed by the department in January 2002, when former Attorney General John Ashcroft was in office.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>About damn time; now we can return to looking at ironic photos like the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blogicons\/meese_statue.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">famous one<\/a> of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uab.edu\/philosophy\/faculty\/arnold\/Meese_Commission.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Edwin Meese<\/a> in the &lsquo;80s. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<div class=\"byline\">tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/politics\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">politics<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/images\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">images<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/humor\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">humor<\/a> <\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-111988578090544692?l=www.driko.org\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Attorney General Alberto Gonzales has finally authorized the restoration of two statues at the Department Of Justice Great Hall to their previous state: After more than three years of being blocked by large blue drapes, two Art Deco aluminum statues of semi-nude figures in the building&rsquo;s Great Hall can be seen again. The &ldquo;Spirit of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2005\/06\/27\/spirit-of-justice-freed-at-last\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8220;Spirit Of Justice&#8221; Freed At Last&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-13373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-imported"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13373\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}