{"id":46444,"date":"2023-08-21T03:11:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-20T17:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=46444"},"modified":"2023-08-21T03:12:53","modified_gmt":"2023-08-20T17:12:53","slug":"monkeys-with-money-and-guns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=46444","title":{"rendered":"Monkeys With Money and Guns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-46445\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Monkeys_With_Guns-246x300.jpg\" alt=\"Monkeys With Money and Guns\" width=\"687\" height=\"838\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Monkeys_With_Guns-246x300.jpg 246w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Monkeys_With_Guns.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 687px) 100vw, 687px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>That is true of some of us. But then, it has always been true. At least since we have had guns. Before then it was ordinary people with spears and clubs.<\/p>\n<p>The challenge for those of us who recognise this is to elevate our contemporaries to a higher level of awareness, intelligence, competence and compassion. We are late to the party. Best we get busy while we still can.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That is true of some of us. But then, it has always been true. At least since we have had guns. Before then it was ordinary people with spears and clubs. The challenge for those of us who recognise this is to elevate our contemporaries to a higher level of awareness, intelligence, competence and compassion. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=46444\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Monkeys With Money and Guns&#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-46444","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\/46444","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=46444"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46448,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46444\/revisions\/46448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}