{"id":7821,"date":"2010-05-11T18:03:39","date_gmt":"2010-05-11T23:03:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=7821"},"modified":"2010-05-11T18:03:39","modified_gmt":"2010-05-11T23:03:39","slug":"the-territorial-nature-of-being","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=7821","title":{"rendered":"The territorial nature of being"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A neighbor told me the best way to eradicate ants: scoop a little of one ant pile and dump it on another and you create a war whereby the ants kill each other off till the last ant is standing.<\/p>\n<p>I pondered this idea as I was staring down at all my ant bites while relaxing on the beach.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"7822\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?attachment_id=7822\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dangermond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/a1.jpg?fit=450%2C337&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"450,337\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.7&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;EX-S880&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1273298659&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;6.2&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;64&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.00125&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"a\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dangermond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/a1.jpg?fit=450%2C337&amp;ssl=1\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7822\" title=\"a\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dangermond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/a1.jpg?resize=450%2C337\" alt=\"a\" width=\"450\" height=\"337\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dangermond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/a1.jpg?w=450&amp;ssl=1 450w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dangermond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/a1.jpg?resize=300%2C224&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The question that comes to mind is if you extrapolate this notion to the Israel\/Palestinian struggle &#8211; did some higher power scoop up a few Jews and throw them in the Palestinian pile and create this war till the last man is standing dynamic?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A neighbor told me the best way to eradicate ants: scoop a little of one ant pile and dump it on another and you create a war whereby the ants kill each other off till the last ant is standing. I pondered this idea as I was staring down at all my ant bites while relaxing on the beach. The question that comes to mind is if you extrapolate this notion to the Israel\/Palestinian struggle&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1kHSD-229","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7821"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7823,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7821\/revisions\/7823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}