{"id":901,"date":"2009-03-12T19:35:46","date_gmt":"2009-03-12T18:35:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.branedy.net\/?p=901"},"modified":"2009-03-12T19:35:46","modified_gmt":"2009-03-12T18:35:46","slug":"another-mucker-for-zanzibar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/?p=901","title":{"rendered":"Another mucker for Zanzibar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With all the violence of late, I am reminded of a novel <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Stand_on_Zanzibar\"> Stand on Zanzibar<\/a>. It should be required reading, and was a Hugo winner in 1969. But it introduces a concept of the <strong>Mucker<\/strong>, a person that is running &#8216;Amok&#8217; out of control. The cause, in the book, is attributed to social pressure, population explosion and the general degradation of the personal, environmental, social and political world. I&#8217;m sure there will be many reasons given for each of these current events, none will be adequate and no one will be satisfied with the answers. <\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With all the violence of late, I am reminded of a novel Stand on Zanzibar. It should be required reading, and was a Hugo winner in 1969. But it introduces a concept of the Mucker, a person that is running<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/?p=901\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Another mucker for Zanzibar<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\"> &#8250;<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,4,35,28,49],"tags":[216,217],"class_list":["post-901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime","category-history","category-lifestyle","category-psychology","category-world-events","tag-shootings","tag-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=901"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":904,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/901\/revisions\/904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}