{"id":130414,"date":"2020-03-11T17:01:25","date_gmt":"2020-03-11T15:01:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?p=130414"},"modified":"2020-03-11T17:01:31","modified_gmt":"2020-03-11T15:01:31","slug":"ponder-about-it-58","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?p=130414","title":{"rendered":"ponder about it!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"922\" height=\"519\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EuyRdJupbvU?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>With  more and more people going bananas all around the world with the  coronavirus  and  the quarantines imposed by the countries&#8230;.  it is always wise for all us to refresh our knowledge and keep our eyes  a bit more open  during these times!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Shock_Doctrine\">Naomi Klein&#8217;s book  The Shock Doctrine  <\/a> warns us about the sock <em> therapy <\/em>and the exploitation of crises to establish dubious and questionable policies by  governments all around the world<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Another book that I  think it is also  interesting to read  during such times is    <a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.gr\/books\/about\/Risk.html?id=7326rubtDGYC&amp;redir_esc=y\">Risk: The Science and Politics of Fear<\/a> by Gardner!  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With more and more people going bananas all around the world with the coronavirus and the quarantines imposed by the countries&#8230;. it is always wise for all us to refresh our knowledge and keep our eyes a bit more open during these times! Naomi Klein&#8217;s book The Shock Doctrine warns us about the sock therapy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":130416,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[503],"class_list":["post-130414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-other-stuff","tag-books"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thecuriousbrain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/ponder-about-it.jpg?fit=480%2C360&ssl=1","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=130414"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":130415,"href":"https:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130414\/revisions\/130415"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/130416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=130414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=130414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=130414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}