{"id":52,"date":"2008-01-07T16:56:03","date_gmt":"2008-01-07T21:56:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/noelfigart.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/07\/people-as-things\/"},"modified":"2008-01-07T16:56:03","modified_gmt":"2008-01-07T21:56:03","slug":"people-as-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/2008\/01\/07\/people-as-things\/","title":{"rendered":"People as Things"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>    <em>\u201cThere is a very interesting debate raging at the moment about the nature of sin, for example,\u201d said Oats.<\/em><em>   <\/em> <em>\u201cAnd what do they think? Against it, are they?\u201d said Granny Weatherwax.<\/em><em>    \u201cIt\u2019s not as simple as that. It\u2019s not a black and white issue. There are so many shades of gray.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>    \u201cNope.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>    \u201cPardon?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u201cThere\u2019s no grays, only white that\u2019s got grubby. I\u2019m surprised you don\u2019t know that. And sin, young man, is when you treat people as things. Including yourself. That\u2019s what sin is.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>    \u201cIt\u2019s a lot more complicated than that \u2013\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u201cNo. It ain\u2019t. When people say things are a lot more complicated than that, they means they\u2019re getting worried that they won\u2019t like the truth. People as things, that\u2019s where it starts.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>    \u201cOh, I\u2019m sure there are worse crimes \u2013\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>    \u201cBut they starts with thinking about people as things \u2026\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"right\">&#8212; <em>Carpe Jugulum, <\/em>Terry Pratchett<\/p>\n<p align=\"right\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p align=\"left\">I love this passage.  Actually read <em>Carpe Jugulum<\/em>.  There are several Weatherwax passages that have me grinning  triumphantly and crying at the same time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThere is a very interesting debate raging at the moment about the nature of sin, for example,\u201d said Oats. \u201cAnd what do they think? Against it, are they?\u201d said Granny Weatherwax. \u201cIt\u2019s not as simple as that. It\u2019s not a black and white issue. There are so many shades of gray.\u201d \u201cNope.\u201d \u201cPardon?\u201d \u201cThere\u2019s no &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/2008\/01\/07\/people-as-things\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;People as Things&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rant"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}