{"id":462,"date":"2003-11-16T02:47:00","date_gmt":"2003-11-16T02:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=462"},"modified":"2018-08-09T08:52:15","modified_gmt":"2018-08-09T13:52:15","slug":"462","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2003\/11\/16\/462\/","title":{"rendered":"Compare\/Contrast Paper Assignment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Class, compare and contrast the following essays\/columns:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Kim du Toit&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kimdutoit.com\/dr\/essays\/essays.php?id=P2327\" target=\"new\">The Pussification Of The Western Male<\/a>, which details how the modern American male is shackled and coddled by the State and society into a &#8220;civilized&#8221; passive consumer.\n<li>Val MacQueen&#8217;s Tech Central Station column <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techcentralstation.com\/111403E.html\" target=\"new\">A New Stockholm Syndrome<\/a>, which explores how Swedish society has become so passive that citizens stand idly by while a leading political figure is stabbed to death in a mall.<\/ul>\n<p>As long as the number of points of contrast outnumber the comparisons, we&#8217;re okay.  But I suspect the gap is shrinking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Class, compare and contrast the following essays\/columns: Kim du Toit&#8217;s The Pussification Of The Western Male, which details how the modern American male is shackled and coddled by the State and society into a &#8220;civilized&#8221; passive consumer. Val MacQueen&#8217;s Tech Central Station column A New Stockholm Syndrome, which explores how Swedish society has become so [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=462"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22096,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462\/revisions\/22096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}