{"id":91,"date":"2006-01-02T11:51:32","date_gmt":"2006-01-02T19:51:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willdoherty.org\/wordpress\/?p=91"},"modified":"2006-01-02T11:51:32","modified_gmt":"2006-01-02T19:51:32","slug":"roots-niger-delta-botany-of-desire-and-blood-canticle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stardustdoherty.org\/?p=91","title":{"rendered":"Roots, Niger Delta, Botany of Desire, and Blood Canticle"},"content":{"rendered":"

I spent New Year’s Eve watching the entire “Roots” television series, a production inspired by Alex Haley’s book. Apparently, there is a sort of sequel called “Queen.”<\/p>\n

I finished my reading and notes on The Trading States of the Oil Rivers; a Study of Political Development in Eastern Nigeria<\/em>. <\/a><\/p>\n

I’m still reading Michael Pollan’s Botany of Desire<\/em> and listening to the audio book of Anne Rice’s Blood Canticle, read delightfully by David Pittu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I spent New Year’s Eve watching the entire “Roots” television series, a production inspired by Alex Haley’s book. Apparently, there is a sort of sequel called “Queen.” I finished my reading and notes on The Trading States of the Oil … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,79,135,250],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anne-rice","category-film","category-literature","category-stardusts-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stardustdoherty.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stardustdoherty.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stardustdoherty.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stardustdoherty.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stardustdoherty.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=91"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stardustdoherty.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stardustdoherty.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=91"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stardustdoherty.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=91"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stardustdoherty.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=91"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}