{"id":5392,"date":"2012-10-13T05:00:31","date_gmt":"2012-10-13T10:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=5392"},"modified":"2012-10-13T05:00:31","modified_gmt":"2012-10-13T10:00:31","slug":"in-clifford-d-simaks-book-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=5392","title":{"rendered":"In Clifford D Simak&#8217;s book &#8220;City&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>he talks about the move away from the cities because of the ready availability of inexpensive and fast personal transport. <\/p>\n<p>Simaks&#8217; book is a fantasy, and not even a very good one- though I enjoy it because of the way he deals with the dogs. <\/p>\n<p>What it does do, though, is highlight the way we are being controlled. Rahm and Daley before him are trying to make Chicago a car-free city. Gas prices are driving people to smaller cars and making them drive less. <\/p>\n<p>An immobile population is much easier to control. Think about that. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>he talks about the move away from the cities because of the ready availability of inexpensive and fast personal transport. Simaks&#8217; book is a fantasy, and not even a very good one- though I enjoy it because of the way he deals with the dogs. What it does do, though, is highlight the way we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5392"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5392\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}