{"id":29382,"date":"2020-09-03T14:41:16","date_gmt":"2020-09-03T04:41:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=29382"},"modified":"2020-09-03T14:41:16","modified_gmt":"2020-09-03T04:41:16","slug":"man-lost-himself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=29382","title":{"rendered":"Man Lost Himself"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"807\" height=\"960\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Man_Lost_Himself.jpg\" alt=\"Man Lost Himself\" class=\"wp-image-29383\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Man_Lost_Himself.jpg 807w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Man_Lost_Himself-252x300.jpg 252w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Man_Lost_Himself-768x914.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A lot of this is documented in Charlotte Iserbyt&#8217;s book, &#8220;The Dumbing Down of America&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you want to revert a downward trend it is important to know where it went off the rails and what caused it to do so. Then and only then can you figure out how to get it back on the rails and moving on up. This is one piece of the jigsaw puzzle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-wordpress wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-deliberate-dumbing-down\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"POn2TMj3rX\"><a href=\"https:\/\/deliberatedumbingdown.com\/ddd\/\">HOME<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;HOME&#8221; &#8212; Deliberate Dumbing Down\" src=\"https:\/\/deliberatedumbingdown.com\/ddd\/embed\/#?secret=J5TwQ4olhn#?secret=POn2TMj3rX\" data-secret=\"POn2TMj3rX\" width=\"525\" height=\"296\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A lot of this is documented in Charlotte Iserbyt&#8217;s book, &#8220;The Dumbing Down of America&#8221;. If you want to revert a downward trend it is important to know where it went off the rails and what caused it to do so. Then and only then can you figure out how to get it back on &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=29382\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Man Lost Himself&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-inspiration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29382"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29384,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29382\/revisions\/29384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}