{"id":336,"date":"2003-07-29T20:11:48","date_gmt":"2003-07-30T00:11:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/2003\/07\/29\/why-im-not-a-teetotaler\/"},"modified":"2003-07-29T20:11:48","modified_gmt":"2003-07-30T00:11:48","slug":"why-im-not-a-teetotaler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/2003\/07\/29\/why-im-not-a-teetotaler\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I&#8217;m not a teetotaler"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a275'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>William Gibson has the best by-line for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/articles\/A64797-2003Jul29.html\" target=\"new\">the Pentagon&#8217;s scheme<\/a> to revive democratic participation in current events by creating a futures market in terrorism.  He calls it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.williamgibsonbooks.com\/blog\/2003_07_01_archive.asp#105950543265868558\" target=\"new\">Ender&#8217;s Futures Market Terminated<\/a>.  Yes indeed, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ender.com\/ender\/\" target=\"new\">Ender<\/a>: I guess science fiction writers always did have the inside track on the gifted, but who would have thought that badly challenged (read: misguided) intelligence in high places would come up with something as dystopic as this.  Sci-fi pales in comparison.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>William Gibson has the best by-line for the Pentagon&#8217;s scheme to revive democratic participation in current events by creating a futures market in terrorism. He calls it Ender&#8217;s Futures Market Terminated. Yes indeed, Ender: I guess science fiction writers always did have the inside track on the gifted, but who would have thought that badly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":311,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":""},"categories":[600],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-yulelogstories"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/311"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}