{"id":464,"date":"2011-07-31T10:20:07","date_gmt":"2011-07-31T09:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lizburton.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=464"},"modified":"2011-07-31T10:26:22","modified_gmt":"2011-07-31T09:26:22","slug":"this-world-is-truly-barking-mad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lizburton.co.uk\/wordpress\/thoughts\/this-world-is-truly-barking-mad\/","title":{"rendered":"This World is Truly Barking Mad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>&#8220;It is absurd to accept the weakling excuse that a world which can send men to the moon cannot join with sufficient willpower to get food to everybody who needs it.&#8221;<\/em> ~ Neal Donald Walsh<\/p>\n<p>Once again it&#8217;s Sunday morning and I&#8217;m in contemplative mood. Perhaps because I went to neighbours party last night and had plenty to eat and drink before walking back up the lane to our house. But once again I&#8217;m struck by the absurdity of a world where people are dying in the Horn of Africa whilst a quick Google reveals that the annual global air fresheners market will reach $8.3 billion by 2015. I dread to think what the worldwide spend on dog food is whilst\u00a0 people starve.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_465\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-465\" style=\"width: 450px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-465\" title=\"Child in Ethiopa\" src=\"http:\/\/lizburton.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Ethiopia-1073.jpg\" alt=\"Child in Ethiopa\" width=\"450\" height=\"731\" srcset=\"http:\/\/lizburton.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Ethiopia-1073.jpg 450w, http:\/\/lizburton.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Ethiopia-1073-184x300.jpg 184w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 85vw, 450px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-465\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A poor village boy we met in Ethiopia- Can you look him in the eye and tell him air freshener is more important?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>We (mankind) really are as mad as the proverbial box of frogs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;It is absurd to accept the weakling excuse that a world which can send men to the moon cannot join with sufficient willpower to get food to everybody who needs it.&#8221; ~ Neal Donald Walsh Once again it&#8217;s Sunday morning and I&#8217;m in contemplative mood. Perhaps because I went to neighbours party last night and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/lizburton.co.uk\/wordpress\/thoughts\/this-world-is-truly-barking-mad\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;This World is Truly Barking Mad&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[18,17],"tags":[65],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lizburton.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lizburton.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lizburton.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizburton.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizburton.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=464"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/lizburton.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":472,"href":"http:\/\/lizburton.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464\/revisions\/472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lizburton.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizburton.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizburton.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}