{"id":1565,"date":"2009-11-20T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-20T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=1565"},"modified":"2014-06-15T05:10:57","modified_gmt":"2014-06-15T05:10:57","slug":"the-year-of-the-flood-by-margaret-atwood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=1565","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Year of the Flood&#8221; by Margaret Atwood"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/yearoftheflood.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/yearoftheflood-198x300.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\">Hey, its sometime in the distant future. We didn&#8217;t listen, we didn&#8217;t do anything. Global warming turned to global heating, the environment is a mess. Corporations have taken over the role of the government. They even run the military. Genetic technology has exploded but not for any good purposes, they have spliced lions and sheep together. They have given human neurons to pigs. Is there anything worse than a smart pig? (Sorry a little obscure pipeline humor there.)<\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\">The divide between the haves and the have nots has widened. The haves live in ultra secure gated communities run by their employers. Life is good! Unless they lose their job. Then its out the gate with you and your family.<\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\">Out the gate is scary; it is chaos. Then there is the God&#8217;s Gardeners. Led by Adam One. He has nine Eve&#8217;s and a bunch of followers. They worship and honor God and God&#8217;s saints. Saint Euell Gibbons, Rachel Carson, and Oklahoma&#8217;s own Saint Karen Silkwood. They quote the Bible and sing hymns. They don&#8217;t&nbsp; eat meat, they are non-violent. They grow their own food.<\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\">This book is the story of the Gardeners. The book is fascinating. I give it three and a half stars out of four.<\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\">Check out the book&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yearoftheflood.com\/us\/\">web site<\/a>. Lots of good information there. You can calculate your carbon footprint. You can enter YouTube hymn singing contest!<\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey, its sometime in the distant future. We didn&#8217;t listen, we didn&#8217;t do anything. Global warming turned to global heating, the environment is a mess. Corporations have taken over the role of the government. They even run the military. Genetic technology has exploded but not for any good purposes, they have spliced lions and sheep [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7712,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[178],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1565"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1565\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}