{"id":154,"date":"2012-04-29T19:09:39","date_gmt":"2012-04-30T00:09:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/?p=154"},"modified":"2012-04-29T19:09:39","modified_gmt":"2012-04-30T00:09:39","slug":"hello-martians-this-is-america-margaret-atwood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/?p=154","title":{"rendered":"Hello, Martians. This Is America &#8211; Margaret Atwood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/04\/29\/opinion\/sunday\/hello-martians-this-is-america.html?pagewanted=2&#038;_r=1\">Link.<\/a> The Martians:\u00a0&#8220;\u2018Moby-Dick\u2019 is about the oil industry,\u201d they said. \u201cAnd the Ship of American State. The owners of the Pequod are rapacious and stingy religious hypocrites. The ship\u2019s business is to butcher whales and turn them into an industrial energy product. The mates are the middle management. The harpooners, who are from races colonized by America one way or another, are supplying the expert tech labor. Elijah the prophet \u2014 from the American artist caste \u2014 foretells the Pequod\u2019s doom, which comes about because the chief executive, Ahab, is a megalomaniac who wants to annihilate nature.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Link. The Martians:\u00a0&#8220;\u2018Moby-Dick\u2019 is about the oil industry,\u201d they said. \u201cAnd the Ship of American State. The owners of the Pequod are rapacious and stingy religious hypocrites. The ship\u2019s business is to butcher whales and turn them into an industrial &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/?p=154\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[35],"class_list":["post-154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-s"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=154"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":155,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154\/revisions\/155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}