{"id":1039,"date":"2005-08-23T12:41:34","date_gmt":"2005-08-23T19:41:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/?p=1039"},"modified":"2005-08-23T12:41:34","modified_gmt":"2005-08-23T19:41:34","slug":"this-is-the-way-the-world-ends-by-james-morrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2005\/08\/23\/this-is-the-way-the-world-ends-by-james-morrow\/","title":{"rendered":"&#034;This is the Way the World Ends&#034; by James Morrow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/0156002086\/qid=1123182956\/sr=8-1\/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl14?v=glance&amp;s=books&amp;n=507846\">&#8220;This Is the Way the World Ends&#8221;<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=thequantumpon-20&amp;l=ur2&amp;o=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important;margin:0px !important\" \/> by James Morrow is a classic black satire of nuclear proliferation in the cold war.  In an interesting way this book did not resonate with me, but I still found it interesting as a window into the ideas and debates of proliferation and deterance during the cold war.  So, as a window into so political satire of the cold war, I give it high marks.  But as a captivating story which still seems relevant today, I give it low marks.  Perhaps I should be scared that I&#8217;m not scared of nuclear proliferation.  Or at least I&#8217;m not scared in the same way people were scared during the cold war.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;This Is the Way the World Ends&#8221; by James Morrow is a classic black satire of nuclear proliferation in the cold war. In an interesting way this book did not resonate with me, but I still found it interesting as a window into the ideas and debates of proliferation and deterance during the cold war. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2005\/08\/23\/this-is-the-way-the-world-ends-by-james-morrow\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#034;This is the Way the World Ends&#034; by James Morrow&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[68],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-read-you-tweed"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}