{"id":478674,"date":"2022-01-21T09:50:41","date_gmt":"2022-01-21T09:50:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=231943"},"modified":"2022-01-21T09:50:41","modified_gmt":"2022-01-21T09:50:41","slug":"the-year-of-the-tiger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2022\/01\/21\/the-year-of-the-tiger\/","title":{"rendered":"The Year of the Tiger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If the life of natural things, millions of years old, does not seem sacred to us, then what can be sacred? Human vanity alone? Contempt for the natural world implies contempt for life. The domination of nature leads to the domination of human nature. Anything becomes permissible. \u2014 Edward Abbey, in Beyond the Wall: Essays  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2022\/01\/21\/the-year-of-the-tiger\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2022\/01\/21\/the-year-of-the-tiger\/\">The Year of the Tiger<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2022\/01\/21\/the-year-of-the-tiger\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If the life of natural things, millions of years old, does not seem sacred to us, then what can be sacred? Human vanity alone? Contempt for the natural world implies contempt for life. The domination of nature leads to the domination of human nature. A&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1815,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478674"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1815"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=478674"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":479758,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478674\/revisions\/479758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=478674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}