{"id":8651,"date":"2013-01-22T12:50:47","date_gmt":"2013-01-22T08:50:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/?p=8651"},"modified":"2013-01-22T12:51:41","modified_gmt":"2013-01-22T08:51:41","slug":"personality-in-a-box","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/2013\/01\/22\/personality-in-a-box\/","title":{"rendered":"Soma, anyone?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The grade 10 students each shared five objects which best represented their chosen character from Aldous Huxley&#8217;s <em>utopian<\/em> novel <em>Brave New World<\/em>. Soma pills appeared to be a common symbol, a motif, in our presentations. The World State&#8217;s strategies to avoid conflict included numbing away negative emotions; anger, jealousy and frustration dissolved with the tablet. Students pointed out how a character&#8217;s level of trust in the nationally distributed drug reflected their ability to fit in and accept the ways of their futuristic culture.<br \/>\nJames&#8217; rocker crazy-hair-day wig is most ironic as his character, John the savage, is horrified by soma.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/20130122-125041.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"http:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/20130122-125041.jpg\" alt=\"20130122-125041.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The grade 10 students each shared five objects which best represented their chosen character from Aldous Huxley&#8217;s utopian novel Brave New World. Soma pills appeared to be a common symbol, a motif, in our presentations. The World State&#8217;s strategies to avoid conflict included numbing away negative emotions; anger, jealousy and frustration dissolved with the tablet. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":8650,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-grade-10","category-secondary-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8651\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}