{"id":355,"date":"2006-08-13T02:17:05","date_gmt":"2006-08-13T06:17:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/s265039441.onlinehome.us\/philpaine\/?p=355"},"modified":"2018-08-21T22:32:47","modified_gmt":"2018-08-22T02:32:47","slug":"14734-%c2%a0%c2%a0-robert-swindells-brother-in-the-land","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=355","title":{"rendered":"14734.&nbsp;(Robert Swindells) Brother in the&nbsp;Land"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Writ\u00adten in 1984, when the Cold War was heat\u00ading up again, this is a nar\u00adra\u00adtive of an Eng\u00adlish teenager\u2019s sur\u00advival after a nuclear war. Swindell attempts to con\u00advey the utter hope\u00adless\u00adness of the sit\u00adu\u00ada\u00adtion. Steeped in the British class sys\u00adtem, he assumes that the rich and pow\u00ader\u00adful would do every\u00adthing to pro\u00adtect them\u00adselves. and sim\u00adply exter\u00admi\u00adnate any\u00adone incon\u00adve\u00adnient to them. Per\u00adhaps this would have been true \u2014 I don\u2019t know British soci\u00adety well enough to judge. The book gives a rea\u00adson\u00adably accu\u00adrate por\u00adtrayal of the effects of a nuclear war on an ordi\u00adnary region (at least in terms of the sci\u00aden\u00adtific knowl\u00adedge then avail\u00adable). As per\u00adsonal dra\u00adma, it is very effec\u00adtive.&nbsp;Peo\u00adple who now imag\u00adine that the world is a new\u00adly ter\u00adri\u00adfy\u00ading place, mere\u00adly because a hand\u00adful of ter\u00adror\u00adists can plant bombs in planes, have either for\u00adgot\u00adten, or are inca\u00adpable of imag\u00adin\u00ading, the kind of anx\u00adi\u00adety peo\u00adple lived under dur\u00ading the peri\u00adods when the immi\u00adnent incin\u00ader\u00ada\u00adtion of the plan\u00adet was some\u00adthing to wor\u00adry&nbsp;about.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Writ\u00adten in 1984, when the Cold War was heat\u00ading up again, this is a nar\u00adra\u00adtive of an Eng\u00adlish teenager\u2019s sur\u00advival after a nuclear war. Swindell attempts to con\u00advey the utter hope\u00adless\u00adness of the sit\u00adu\u00ada\u00adtion. Steeped in the British class system,&nbsp;\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=355\">Read more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[946,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-b-reading","category-bu-reading-2006"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=355"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9482,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355\/revisions\/9482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}