{"id":726,"date":"2004-11-22T22:00:22","date_gmt":"2004-11-22T10:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=726"},"modified":"2004-11-23T07:58:50","modified_gmt":"2004-11-22T19:58:50","slug":"","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/archives\/726","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.motherearthnews.com\/arc\/5029\/\">Wendell Berry, in a interview in 1973<\/a> said:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I mean I&#8217;m completely against this idiocy &#8230; that says surfboarding is an acceptable way of life. That&#8217;s utterly absurd &#8230; surfboarding is not a way of life. People are free to think it is because the care and responsibility for society has been broken up and parceled out to the experts. People who make a life of surfboarding are living off other people. They&#8217;re leeches of the affluent society. They&#8217;re parasites of a parasite. As long as we have people making some kind of amusement a way of life, you&#8217;ll find they&#8217;re getting their support from something destructive, like strip-mining or needless &#8216;development&#8217; or war-making.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wendell Berry, in a interview in 1973 said: I mean I&#8217;m completely against this idiocy &#8230; that says surfboarding is an acceptable way of life. That&#8217;s utterly absurd &#8230; surfboarding is not a way of life. People are free to think it is because the care and responsibility for society has been broken up and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-link","category-quote"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726","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=726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}