{"id":625,"date":"2013-04-19T10:47:14","date_gmt":"2013-04-19T16:47:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/?p=625"},"modified":"2013-04-19T10:47:14","modified_gmt":"2013-04-19T16:47:14","slug":"life-imitates-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/life-imitates-art-625.htm","title":{"rendered":"Life Imitates Art"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormalCxSpFirst\">Last night I watched an episode of <em>Foyle\u2019s War.<\/em> The criminal was an English teenager who had watched too many American gangster movies and started to act them out. Ecoterrorists were inspired by Edward Abbey novels.\u00a0 <em>The Sorrows of Young Werther <\/em>led to a rash of suicides.<span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormalCxSpMiddle\">I fear that the bombers in Boston may inspire copycats. Two teenagers have paralyzed a major city and have made the international news.<span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>But what can the media do? They can hardly ignore what is going on in Boston. But the more coverage they give, the more likely some alienated teenager is going to get ideas.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-625\" data-postid=\"625\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-625 themify_builder themify_builder_front\">\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<!-- \/themify_builder_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night I watched an episode of Foyle\u2019s War. The criminal was an English teenager who had watched too many American gangster movies and started to act them out. Ecoterrorists were inspired by Edward Abbey novels.\u00a0 The Sorrows of Young Werther led to a rash of suicides. I fear that the bombers in Boston may [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}