{"id":65,"date":"2015-02-26T17:14:03","date_gmt":"2015-02-27T01:14:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/faculty.lmu.edu\/mollyyoungkin\/?page_id=65"},"modified":"2015-03-10T15:45:43","modified_gmt":"2015-03-10T22:45:43","slug":"annotation-bogey-sticks-for-pogo-men","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/faculty.lmu.edu\/mollyyoungkin\/walter-ong-bibliography\/articles-1950-1959\/annotation-bogey-sticks-for-pogo-men\/","title":{"rendered":"Annotation: Bogey Sticks for Pogo Men"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this article, Ong shows how what is labeled &#8220;high art&#8221; (the works of Pablo Picasso, James Joyce, and Gertrude Stein, for example) and what is referred to as &#8220;popular culture&#8221; (specifically, the comic strip <i>Pogo<\/i>) are not as separate from each other as people make them out to be.\u00a0 Ong cites the nonsense songs found in <i>Pogo<\/i> as linguistic constructions that might as well be in the work of Joyce, but he asserts that what makes these nonsense songs acceptable in popular culture is that people have had time to get used to (and perhaps forget) the avant-garde world from which they came.\u00a0 Ong urges people, especially the Catholic readers of <i>America<\/i>, to adopt a more open view of what is new and unfamiliar to them rather than waiting for a certain level of comfort before accepting new ideas into their world.<\/p>\n<div align=\"right\"><a href=\"http:\/\/faculty.lmu.edu\/mollyyoungkin\/walter-ong-bibliography\/articles-1950-1959#bogeysticks\">Return to Listings<\/a><\/div>\n<hr width=\"100%\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this article, Ong shows how what is labeled &#8220;high art&#8221; (the works of Pablo Picasso, James Joyce, and Gertrude Stein, for example) and what is referred to as &#8220;popular culture&#8221; (specifically, the comic strip Pogo) are not as separate from each other as people make them out to be.\u00a0 Ong cites the nonsense songs &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/faculty.lmu.edu\/mollyyoungkin\/walter-ong-bibliography\/articles-1950-1959\/annotation-bogey-sticks-for-pogo-men\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Annotation: Bogey Sticks for Pogo Men<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"parent":61,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-65","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/faculty.lmu.edu\/mollyyoungkin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/65","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/faculty.lmu.edu\/mollyyoungkin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/faculty.lmu.edu\/mollyyoungkin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/faculty.lmu.edu\/mollyyoungkin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/faculty.lmu.edu\/mollyyoungkin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/faculty.lmu.edu\/mollyyoungkin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/65\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/faculty.lmu.edu\/mollyyoungkin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/61"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/faculty.lmu.edu\/mollyyoungkin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}