{"id":172,"date":"2003-12-31T15:08:59","date_gmt":"2003-12-31T20:08:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/2009\/04\/03\/rising-up-rising-down\/"},"modified":"2013-12-05T23:58:01","modified_gmt":"2013-12-06T03:58:01","slug":"rising-up-rising-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/2003\/12\/31\/rising-up-rising-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Rising Up and Rising Down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I didn&#8217;t put <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/articles\/A11739-2003Dec18.html\"><i>Rising Up and Rising Down<\/i><\/a> on my holiday list, because I knew I wasn&#8217;t going to be able to convince anybody to spend $120 on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.powells.com\/partner\/29017\/biblio\/1151905488\">a 7-volume treatise<\/a> on whether the means of violence can ever be justified by the ends. Not to mention the odd looks I knew I&#8217;d get.<\/p>\n<p>But I&#8217;m a huge fan of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beatrice.com\/interviews\/vollmann\/\">William T. Vollmann<\/A>, and I&#8217;ll be saving up my own hard-earned money for this, even if I can&#8217;t imagine finding the time to read it for some months to come&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I didn&#8217;t put Rising Up and Rising Down on my holiday list, because I knew I wasn&#8217;t going to be able to convince anybody to spend $120 on a 7-volume treatise on whether the means of violence can ever be justified by the ends. Not to mention the odd looks I knew I&#8217;d get. But [&hellip;]<\/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":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3197,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions\/3197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}