{"id":2963,"date":"2010-02-18T18:32:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-19T01:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/juliashih.com\/blog\/?p=2963"},"modified":"2010-02-18T18:32:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-19T01:32:00","slug":"2963","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/juliashih.com\/?p=2963","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>cult of personality &#8211; intense devotion to a particular person.<\/p>\n<p>from wikipedia:<\/p>\n<p>A cult of personality arises when a country&#8217;s leader uses <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mass_media\" title=\"Mass media\">mass media<\/a> to create an idealized and heroic public image, often through unquestioning flattery and praise.<sup id=\"cite_ref-0\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cult_of_personality#cite_note-0\"><span>[<\/span>1<span>]<\/span><\/a><\/sup> Cults of personality are often found in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dictatorship\" title=\"Dictatorship\">dictatorships<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Stalinist\" title=\"Stalinist\" class=\"mw-redirect\">Stalinist<\/a> governments.<\/p>\n<p>A cult of personality is similar to general <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Apotheosis\" title=\"Apotheosis\">hero worship<\/a>, except that it is created specifically for political leaders. However, the term may be applied by analogy to refer to adulation of religious or non-political leaders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>cult of personality &#8211; intense devotion to a particular person. from wikipedia: A cult of personality arises when a country&#8217;s leader uses mass media to create an idealized and heroic public image, often through unquestioning flattery and praise.[1] Cults of personality are often found in dictatorships and Stalinist governments. A cult of personality is similar [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/sbl5mn-2963","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/juliashih.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/juliashih.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/juliashih.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juliashih.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juliashih.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/juliashih.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2963\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/juliashih.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juliashih.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juliashih.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}