{"id":237,"date":"2015-02-18T08:44:55","date_gmt":"2015-02-18T08:44:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/davidrose\/?p=237"},"modified":"2015-02-18T08:44:55","modified_gmt":"2015-02-18T08:44:55","slug":"dying-death-and-capitalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/davidrose\/2015\/02\/18\/dying-death-and-capitalism\/","title":{"rendered":"Dying, Death and Capitalism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not written on here for a while and am perhaps thinking of closing the whole thing down, but I have seen a couple of articles in  <code> <!--more--><\/code> my breakfast moan at The Guardian that may be of interest to some of your projects. I get the impression that this is the equivalent of throwing quacking ducks and squeaking bunnies down a deep, deep ravine. <\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t remember with whom, but I did have a discussion about is there an alternative to capitalism, that is the question being discussed by the Greek finance minister <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2015\/feb\/18\/yanis-varoufakis-how-i-became-an-erratic-marxist\">here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>and then there are those of you thinking about euthanasia and the sanctity of human life. Well <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/2015\/feb\/17\/assisted-dying-dutch-doctors-patient-law-netherlands\">here<\/a> are the worries about slippery slopes, snowballs and the deconstruction of the principle itself.<\/p>\n<p>Comments, if one can be bothered, below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not written on here for a while and am perhaps thinking of closing the whole thing down, but I have seen a couple of articles in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4745,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,9,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-project-topics","category-stage-2","category-stage-3"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/davidrose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/davidrose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/davidrose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/davidrose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4745"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/davidrose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/davidrose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":239,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/davidrose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237\/revisions\/239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/davidrose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/davidrose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/davidrose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}