{"id":5872,"date":"2011-08-20T03:25:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-20T03:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2011\/08\/20\/you-develop-an-instant-global-consciousness-a\/"},"modified":"2011-08-20T03:25:00","modified_gmt":"2011-08-20T03:25:00","slug":"you-develop-an-instant-global-consciousness-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2011\/08\/20\/you-develop-an-instant-global-consciousness-a\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it. From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, &ldquo;Look at that, you son of a bitch.&rdquo;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Edgar_Mitchell\" target=\"_blank\">Edgar Mitchell<\/a>, Apollo 14 astronaut, on political quagmire<\/p>\n<p>[via <em><a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2011\/08\/18\/an-apollo-astronaut-on-political-quagmires.html\" target=\"_blank\">BB<\/a><\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it. From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2011\/08\/20\/you-develop-an-instant-global-consciousness-a\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[16],"class_list":["post-5872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-quote","post_format-post-format-quote"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5872\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}