{"id":6727,"date":"2011-09-24T18:01:52","date_gmt":"2011-09-24T17:01:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=6727"},"modified":"2011-09-24T18:02:37","modified_gmt":"2011-09-24T17:02:37","slug":"the-historic-decline-of-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=6727","title":{"rendered":"The historic decline of violence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the Euro zone looks close to collapse and as the British and American economies teeter on the edge\u00a0 a double-deep recession, let&#8217;s at least give thanks that historically the level of violence in the world is on a sustained decline.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t believe me? Well, the case and the (considerable) evidence is in a new book by Steven Pinker entitled &#8220;The Better Angels Of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined&#8221;. Pinker has summarized his case in the &#8220;Wall Street Journal&#8221; in <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424053111904106704576583203589408180.html?mod=WSJ_hp_LEFTTopStories\">this article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the Euro zone looks close to collapse and as the British and American economies teeter on the edge\u00a0 a double-deep recession, let&#8217;s at least give thanks that historically the level of violence in the world is on a sustained decline. Don&#8217;t believe me? Well, the case and the (considerable) evidence is in a new [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6727"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6731,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6727\/revisions\/6731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}