{"id":12918,"date":"2015-01-26T12:00:18","date_gmt":"2015-01-26T20:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/?p=12918"},"modified":"2015-01-23T09:40:02","modified_gmt":"2015-01-23T17:40:02","slug":"from-the-decjan-zephyr-jack-burns-an-abbey-fictional-character-from-two-dimensions-by-scott-thompson-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/2015\/01\/26\/from-the-decjan-zephyr-jack-burns-an-abbey-fictional-character-from-two-dimensions-by-scott-thompson-2\/","title":{"rendered":"(From the Dec\/Jan Zephyr) \u2018Jack Burns: An Abbey Fictional Character From Two Dimensions\u2019 \u2026by Scott Thompson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>An excerpt:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I believe that Jack Burns, a character in several of Edward Abbey\u2019s novels, is in effect a time traveler from the pre-agricultural world. The hunter-gatherer societies that inhabited that world thrived for nearly 200,000 years and constituted the basic environment of human evolutionary adaptation. In duration they dwarf the last 5,000 years of agriculture-based human civilization (\u201csyphilization\u201d is what Ed called it).<\/p>\n<p>I also believe that humanity is destined to reclaim salient features of those pre-agricultural societies, whether we do so by our own choice or because we are hammered into it by a long series of ecological disasters.<br \/>\nSo Jack Burns is also a time traveler from humanity\u2019s future.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Click the image below to read more of Scott&#8217;s article:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/2014\/12\/02\/jack-burns-an-abbey-fictional-character-from-two-dimensions-by-scott-thompson\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-12629\" src=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/LA18.jpg\" alt=\"LA18\" width=\"550\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/LA18.jpg 550w, http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/LA18-300x190.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/2014\/12\/02\/jack-burns-an-abbey-fictional-character-from-two-dimensions-by-scott-thompson\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/2014\/12\/02\/jack-burns-an-abbey-fictional-character-from-two-dimensions-by-scott-thompson\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An excerpt: I believe that Jack Burns, a character in several of Edward Abbey\u2019s novels, is in effect a time traveler from the pre-agricultural world. The hunter-gatherer societies that inhabited that world thrived for nearly 200,000 years and constituted the basic environment of human evolutionary adaptation. In duration they dwarf the last 5,000 years of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12918"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12919,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12918\/revisions\/12919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}