{"id":120,"date":"2003-09-22T18:45:02","date_gmt":"2003-09-22T22:45:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/desultor\/2003\/09\/22\/neo-luddism\/"},"modified":"2003-09-22T18:45:02","modified_gmt":"2003-09-22T22:45:02","slug":"neo-luddism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/2003\/09\/22\/neo-luddism\/","title":{"rendered":"Neo-Luddism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a138'><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/library\/tech\/98\/04\/circuits\/articles\/09amish.html\">This<\/a> is kinda interesting, via rebeccablood.  This weekend&#8217;s trip Up North has given me fodder for pondering.  Some folks ain&#8217;t even got toilets!  Does that make them better than me?<\/p>\n<p>These days, loom-smashing isn&#8217;t so much &agrave; la mode.  &#8220;The Man&#8221; would smash <i>us<\/i> up with the proverbial quickness.  But we don&#8217;t gotta bring looms into our homes necessarily.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n&#x201C;One may be obliged to give way to an occasional necessity,&#x201D; said Deronda. &#x201C;But it is one thing to say, &#x2018;In this particular case I am forced to put on this foolscap and grin,&#x2019; and another to buy a pocket foolscap and practise myself in grinning.&#8221;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is kinda interesting, via rebeccablood. This weekend&#8217;s trip Up North has given me fodder for pondering. Some folks ain&#8217;t even got toilets! Does that make them better than me? These days, loom-smashing isn&#8217;t so much &agrave; la mode. &#8220;The Man&#8221; would smash us up with the proverbial quickness. But we don&#8217;t gotta bring looms [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}