{"id":3246,"date":"2012-09-29T13:40:31","date_gmt":"2012-09-29T17:40:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/?p=3246"},"modified":"2012-09-29T13:40:31","modified_gmt":"2012-09-29T17:40:31","slug":"the-ongoing-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/?p=3246","title":{"rendered":"The Ongoing War"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nevil Shute<\/a> is one of my favorite authors.\u00a0 I\u2019ve reread his books more than once.\u00a0 Except for his most famous book \u201cOn the Beach.\u201d\u00a0 Many people think that that book, and the subsequent movie, are why we haven\u2019t destroyed ourselves with a nuclear war.\u00a0 I don\u2019t read it because the ending is painful.\u00a0 Because I\u2019m vulnerable to depression, I need to read books with happy endings, but they also have to be well-written and meaningful for me to read them again.\u00a0 My brother Jesse recommended \u201cTrustee from the Toolroom,\u201d and it\u2019s a really great story. Recently I was reading “Pied Piper”<\/a> again. It\u2019s about World War II.\u00a0 The story is of an elderly man crossing France while the Germans are taking over, and trying to get back to England.\u00a0 During the time I was reading it, every time I put the book down, I felt that there was still a war going on.\u00a0 And there is a war going on, the war of the super-rich against women, people of color, children, old people, and anyone who\u2019s disabled or poor.\u00a0 It\u2019s also a war on the environment.\u00a0 One of Nevil Shute\u2019s themes is the reconciliation of opposites.\u00a0 I\u2019m hoping we humans all over the planet can pull this off before we destroy \u2014 not the planet, but the part of the living life-support system that we depend on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nevil Shute is one of my favorite authors.\u00a0 I\u2019ve reread his books more than once.\u00a0 Except for his most famous book \u201cOn the Beach.\u201d\u00a0 Many people think that that book, and the subsequent movie, are why we haven\u2019t destroyed ourselves … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-depression"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3246\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}