{"id":2124,"date":"2013-02-25T14:10:08","date_gmt":"2013-02-25T02:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/?p=2124"},"modified":"2013-02-25T14:17:49","modified_gmt":"2013-02-25T02:17:49","slug":"gk-chesterton-frances-bloggs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/archives\/2124","title":{"rendered":"Tunnels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/chesterton-his-wife-frances.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-2125\" alt=\"GK Chesterton and Frances Bloggs\" src=\"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/chesterton-his-wife-frances.jpg\" width=\"350\" height=\"465\" srcset=\"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/chesterton-his-wife-frances.jpg 500w, http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/chesterton-his-wife-frances-112x150.jpg 112w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Freaky Hunter S Thompson quote from <em>Fear and Loathing in Loss Vegas<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We are all wired into a survival trip now. No more of the speed that fueled that 60&#8217;s. That was the fatal flaw in Tim Leary&#8217;s trip. He crashed around America selling &#8220;consciousness expansion&#8221; without ever giving a thought to the grim meat-hook realities that were lying in wait for all the people who took him seriously&#8230; All those pathetically eager acid freaks who thought they could buy Peace and Understanding for three bucks a hit. But their loss and failure is ours too. What Leary took down with him was the central illusion of a whole life-style that he helped create&#8230; a generation of permanent cripples, failed seekers, who never understood the essential old-mystic fallacy of the Acid Culture: the desperate assumption that somebody&#8230; or at least some force &#8211; is tending the light at the end of the tunnel.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Freaky Hunter S Thompson quote from Fear and Loathing in Loss Vegas: We are all wired into a survival trip now. No more of the speed that fueled that 60&#8217;s. That was the fatal flaw in Tim Leary&#8217;s trip. He crashed around America selling &#8220;consciousness expansion&#8221; without ever giving a thought to the grim meat-hook [&hellip;]<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-2124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2124"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2128,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2124\/revisions\/2128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}