{"id":407,"date":"2009-02-25T03:21:45","date_gmt":"2009-02-25T08:21:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/?p=407"},"modified":"2009-03-21T03:25:29","modified_gmt":"2009-03-21T08:25:29","slug":"more-on-hunting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/2009\/02\/25\/more-on-hunting\/","title":{"rendered":"More on hunting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nPalau&#8217;s comment on <a href=\"index.php?entry=\/20090218-why-defend-hunting.txt\">last week&#8217;s hunting post<\/a> is too good not to quote in full*:\n<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"cite\">\n<p>\nRevoke the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Enclosure\">Enclosure Acts<\/a>! See, there&#8217;s your trouble, right there, the rich dispossessing the poor. It always is.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nI think part of the motivation for the current leftish rethink on hunting is coming from miserabilists like me who&#8217;ve been predicting an eventual return to subsistence living as the whole economic system collapses.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe prospect of bankrupt nations falling like dominoes plus worldwide unemployment and depression does set one remembering all those WWII recipes and Ray Mears survival tips.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nOne of the little headgames I play when I&#8217;m bored or can&#8217;t sleep is &#8216;what would you do if&#8230;&#8217; say, there were no supermarkets? If Russia cuts off the gas? We get flooded by rising sea levels?\n<\/p>\n<p>\nI&#8217;ve even caught myself musing on the utility of a crossbow vs a shotgun while listening to the news and idly wondering how much protein there might be in the wood pigeon in the garden that I&#8217;ve been feeding. I&#8217;ve got a nice recipe for rook pie too&#8230;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nBut on the whole I blame the hunting rethink on posh trendies [like] Hugh Fearnley-bloody-Whittingstall.\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\nPoor pigeon&#8230;\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"small\">\n* Beside, makes for an easy post&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Palau&#8217;s comment on last week&#8217;s hunting post is too good not to quote in full*: Revoke the Enclosure Acts! See, there&#8217;s your trouble, right there, the rich dispossessing the poor. It always is. I think part of the motivation for the current leftish rethink on hunting is coming from miserabilists like me who&#8217;ve been predicting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[217],"tags":[272,275],"class_list":["post-407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-this-n-that","tag-hunting","tag-were-doomed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=407"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":408,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407\/revisions\/408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}