{"id":2560,"date":"2004-06-03T04:24:11","date_gmt":"2004-06-03T18:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/06\/03\/withdrawal-symptoms\/"},"modified":"2019-12-10T13:43:04","modified_gmt":"2019-12-10T21:43:04","slug":"withdrawal-symptoms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/06\/03\/withdrawal-symptoms\/","title":{"rendered":"Withdrawal symptoms"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\n  Here&#8217;s what I think the truth is: We are all addicts of fossil fuels in a state of denial, about to face cold turkey.<\/p>\n<p>  And like so many addicts about to face cold turkey, our leaders are now committing violent crimes to get what little is left of what we&#8217;re hooked on.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.inthesetimes.com\/site\/main\/article\/cold_turkey\/\" title=\"Cold Turkey\">Kurt Vonnegut<\/a><\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kottke.org\/04\/06\/addicts-of-fossil-fuels\" title=\"kottke.org: Addicts of Fossil Fuels\">Kottke<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><strong>iTunes:<\/strong> &#8220;Blue&#8221; by LaTour from the album <em>Big Hard Disk Vol. 1<\/em> (1992, 7:33).<span hidden class=\"__iawmlf-post-loop-links\" data-iawmlf-links=\"[{&quot;id&quot;:10879,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.inthesetimes.com\\\/site\\\/main\\\/article\\\/cold_turkey&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.inthesetimes.com\\\/site\\\/main\\\/article\\\/cold_turkey&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:10880,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.kottke.org\\\/04\\\/06\\\/addicts-of-fossil-fuels&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/kottke.org\\\/04\\\/06\\\/addicts-of-fossil-fuels&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]\"><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s what I think the truth is: We are all addicts of fossil fuels in a state of denial, about to face cold turkey. And like so many addicts about to face cold turkey, our leaders are now committing violent crimes to get what little is left of what we&#8217;re hooked on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2042],"tags":[16],"class_list":["post-2560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-quotes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2560\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}