{"id":8791,"date":"2013-03-25T10:28:16","date_gmt":"2013-03-25T15:28:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=8791"},"modified":"2013-03-26T10:18:03","modified_gmt":"2013-03-26T15:18:03","slug":"death-in-the-modern-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=8791","title":{"rendered":"Death in the modern world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I spent a long time looking at this graph. Its seems to suggest that war has become a less likely cause of death in today&#8217;s world. If so it might be the result of the world&#8217;s citizens getting more education or becoming more invested in a middle class way of life. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/sullydish.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/03\/iib_death_wellcome_collection_cropped.png?w=580&#038;h=361\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I found it on <a href=\"http:\/\/dish.andrewsullivan.com\/2013\/03\/15\/chart-of-the-day-maybe-duplicate-but-couldnt-find-it-in-another-post-da\/\">Sully<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d like to think so. I finished reading The Book Thief a week ago when I first started this post. Its a thoughtful and engrossing muse by Death on the state of humanity as he saw in Germany during World War II.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time a story appeared in the news of bodies being found in a Syrian Drainage Canal dumped their by their murderers but exposed as the canal ran dry. Death&#8217;s work is not yet finished.<\/p>\n<p>He was also busy in the early years of the settlement of the English settlement of the North American colonies according to the history in The Barbarous Years. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure that death will never get a break. Perhaps after war finally crawls back behind the ploughshare Death will start picking up our spirits following the outbreak of a some pandemic spawned by the stockyards of the world which seem to be engineering killer bacteria that are immune to our dwindling supply of new antibiotics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I spent a long time looking at this graph. Its seems to suggest that war has become a less likely cause of death in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,70],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8791"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8791"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8826,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8791\/revisions\/8826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}