{"id":1331,"date":"2003-09-01T15:12:04","date_gmt":"2003-09-01T19:12:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2003\/09\/01\/lawsuits-cloud-counterculture-idyll\/"},"modified":"2003-09-01T15:12:04","modified_gmt":"2003-09-01T19:12:04","slug":"lawsuits-cloud-counterculture-idyll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2003\/09\/01\/lawsuits-cloud-counterculture-idyll\/","title":{"rendered":"Lawsuits Cloud Counterculture Idyll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a892'><\/a><\/p>\n<table width=\"537\" border=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td height=\"230\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/burningman.jpg\" width=\"537\" height=\"230\"><\/td>\n<td>&nbsp;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td height=\"107\">\n<p><font color=\"#FF0000\" size=\"+2\"><strong>Burning Man Put Out by Suits<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p>Melding what&#8217;s left of the counter-culture to an X-Files<br \/>\n        aestetic, the Burning Man festival has been attracting left-coast pyromaniacs<br \/>\n        since the 1980&#8217;s. Located in Black Rock Desert, Nevada (Nevada&#8217;s fourth<br \/>\n        largest city, who knew?), the annual Labor Day event aims to combine<br \/>\n        countercultural idealism and hedonistic creativity :\n      <\/p>\n<p>&quot;From all across the desert they came, with luminescent wires in their<br \/>\n          hair or<br \/>\n          war paint on their faces. As drum circles pounded out tribal rhythms<br \/>\n        and roving sound systems blasted techno beats, they walked in their elaborate<br \/>\n          homemade costumes or drove in bizarre vehicles. They hooted and they<br \/>\n        cheered,<br \/>\n      and most of all they came to burn the Man.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>But not so fast&#8230;..this year the festival is being challenged by five<br \/>\n      local residents, led by garlic farmer Michael Stewart who are objecting<br \/>\n      to insufficient water supplies, potential fire hazards and leftover debris. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2003\/09\/01\/arts\/music\/01BURN.html?ex=1377748800&amp;en=2e26ac7b7685ed34&amp;ei=5007&amp;partner=USERLAND\">from the New York Times<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>&nbsp;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Burning Man Put Out by Suits Melding what&#8217;s left of the counter-culture to an X-Files aestetic, the Burning Man festival has been attracting left-coast pyromaniacs since the 1980&#8217;s. Located in Black Rock Desert, Nevada (Nevada&#8217;s fourth largest city, who &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2003\/09\/01\/lawsuits-cloud-counterculture-idyll\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1443],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-esl-links"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}