{"id":27,"date":"2008-08-29T03:41:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-29T03:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/foucachon.com\/home\/2008\/08\/29\/labour-saving-machinary\/"},"modified":"2008-08-29T03:41:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-29T03:41:00","slug":"labour-saving-machinary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/2008\/08\/labour-saving-machinary\/","title":{"rendered":"Labour Saving Machinary"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;There is the tragedy and despair of all machinery laid bare. Unlike art which is content to create a new secondary world in the mind, it attempts to actualize desire, and so to create power in this World; and that cannot really be done with any real satisfaction. Labour-saving machinery only creates endless and worse labour&#8230;I will forgive Mordor-gadgets some of their sins, if they will bring [this letter] quickly to you&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>J.R.R. Tolkien, in a letter to his son Christopher, 7 July 1944. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;There is the tragedy and despair of all machinery laid bare. Unlike art which is content to create a new secondary world in the mind, it attempts to actualize desire, and so to create power in this World; and that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/2008\/08\/labour-saving-machinary\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jrr-tolkien"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}