{"id":196,"date":"2010-02-22T20:47:23","date_gmt":"2010-02-23T02:47:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davidschalliol.com\/blog\/?p=196"},"modified":"2018-12-17T18:37:11","modified_gmt":"2018-12-18T00:37:11","slug":"a-couple-of-thoughts-about-the-chicago-auto-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidschalliol.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/22\/a-couple-of-thoughts-about-the-chicago-auto-show\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Thoughts About the Chicago Auto Show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagoautoshow.com\/\">Chicago Auto Show<\/a> could certainly provide enough material to fill a book length project, I&#8217;d like to quickly draw attention to two unexpected examples of subordination that caught my eye on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The first &#8212; and more obvious example &#8212; is that the workers who constantly clean the cars and their displays are nearly invisible to the auto show visitor.  While it&#8217;s hard to miss the man who is hand dusting the car one is admiring, I didn&#8217;t see one visitor actually acknowledge a worker, even if that worker was a foot away or on his knees in front of the visitor.  A few illustrations are below.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/metroblossom\/4379766230\/\" title=\"Chicago Auto Show Workers by metroblossom, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2722\/4379766230_6dbc0e000e.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"336\" alt=\"Chicago Auto Show Workers\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>That said, the more surprising phenomenon was the seemingly ubiquitous desire to play the role of a criminal suspect by placing one&#8217;s hands (or, in the case of wearing imaginary handcuffs, one&#8217;s chest) on the hood or trunk of a police vehicle.  Not once did I see someone play the role of the police officer with a police car; instead, the performance was always that of a suspect.  The act was often done for sake of a photograph, and spanned all ethnic categories.  Again, a few examples are below.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/metroblossom\/4379011209\/\" title=\"People Getting Arrested by metroblossom, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4055\/4379011209_1759d8a8c0.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" alt=\"People Getting Arrested\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While the Chicago Auto Show could certainly provide enough material to fill a book length project, I&#8217;d like to quickly draw attention to two unexpected examples of subordination that caught my eye on Sunday. The first &#8212; and more obvious example &#8212; is that the workers who constantly clean the cars and their displays are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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":[3,4],"tags":[75,76,74,73,10,72,77],"class_list":["post-196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photograph","category-text","tag-arrested","tag-arrests","tag-automobiles","tag-cars","tag-chicago","tag-chicago-auto-show","tag-workers"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pFuNp-3a","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidschalliol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidschalliol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidschalliol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidschalliol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidschalliol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/davidschalliol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4065,"href":"https:\/\/davidschalliol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196\/revisions\/4065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidschalliol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidschalliol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidschalliol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}