{"id":3578,"date":"2017-09-18T09:16:09","date_gmt":"2017-09-18T13:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/?p=3578"},"modified":"2017-09-18T09:17:28","modified_gmt":"2017-09-18T13:17:28","slug":"monday-18-september-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2017\/09\/18\/monday-18-september-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday, 18 September 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>09:16 &#8211;<\/strong><\/span> It was 57.2F (14C) when I took Colin out at 0630. It was still dark, and on the eastern horizon Venus was in close conjunction with a thin crescent Luna. I almost woke Barbara to come out and see it.<\/p>\n<p>The violent &#8220;protests&#8221; in St. Louis continue, yet another symptom of a country that&#8217;s coming apart at the seams. If it hasn&#8217;t become obvious to everyone by now that cultural diversity is a very bad thing, it should have. Humans evolved to live in small groups, tribes, and shoehorning millions of us into urban agglomerations is a guaranteed way to spark tribal warfare between and among those many groups. I have nothing in common with the urban underclass, and they have nothing in common with me.<\/p>\n<p>So long as those diverse groups were assimilated into the common white Anglo-Saxon culture that prevailed in this country until relatively recently, we could all get along. Now that we no longer have that common culture, we&#8217;re fragmenting into smaller groups that are increasingly at war. This doesn&#8217;t bode well. The first literal shots in these wars have already been fired, and it won&#8217;t take much for things to degenerate further.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>09:16 &#8211; It was 57.2F (14C) when I took Colin out at 0630. It was still dark, and on the eastern horizon Venus was in close conjunction with a thin crescent Luna. I almost woke Barbara to come out and see it.<\/p>\n<p>The violent &#8220;protests&#8221; in St. Louis continue, yet another symptom of a country that&#8217;s coming apart at the seams. If it hasn&#8217;t become obvious to everyone by now that cultural diversity is a very bad thing,<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2017\/09\/18\/monday-18-september-2017\/\">&nbsp;&raquo;&nbsp;Read more about: Monday, 18 September 2017 &nbsp;&raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3578\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}