{"id":2695,"date":"2012-06-04T14:25:51","date_gmt":"2012-06-04T18:25:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/\/?p=2695"},"modified":"2012-06-08T10:18:47","modified_gmt":"2012-06-08T14:18:47","slug":"ha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/blog\/2012\/06\/04\/ha\/","title":{"rendered":"Very funny. kind of."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8220;What is the world\u2019s shortest book?<\/p>\n<p>The environmentalist\u2019s book of jokes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">\u00a0\u2013 from writer Sharman Apt Russell&#8217;s blog, <a href=\"http:\/\/loveofplace.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Love of Place<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">She continues in her post &#8220;The Lighter Side of Global Warming:&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For myself, I also feel an intangible loss. Humans are wired for continuity. We believe in culture, tradition, grandkids. We believe we are connected to the future. In the twentieth century, where I spent most of my time, we even believed in progress. We were destined to move forward into something better. Now I feel cut off. Disconnected. The future is no place I want to go.<\/p>\n<p>As Woody Allen wrote, &#8216;Mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness, the other to extinction. Let us pray we choose correctly.'&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;What is the world\u2019s shortest book? The environmentalist\u2019s book of jokes.&#8221; \u00a0\u2013 from writer Sharman Apt Russell&#8217;s blog, Love of Place. She continues in her post &#8220;The Lighter Side of Global Warming:&#8221; &#8220;For myself, I also feel an intangible loss. Humans are wired for continuity. We believe in culture, tradition, grandkids. We believe we are &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/blog\/2012\/06\/04\/ha\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Very funny. kind of.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[54],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2695"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2695"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2704,"href":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2695\/revisions\/2704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}