{"id":309,"date":"2005-02-14T09:40:29","date_gmt":"2005-02-14T09:40:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/idiolect.truth.posiweb.net\/notes\/?p=309"},"modified":"2005-02-14T09:40:29","modified_gmt":"2005-02-14T09:40:29","slug":"quote-84","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/2005\/02\/14\/quote-84\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote #84"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Studies of hunter-gatherers have shown that some only need to work for 2<br \/>\nhours a day to support themselves. One Bushman, when asked why he hadn&#8217;t<br \/>\nemulated neighbouring tribes by adopting agriculture, replied, &#8220;Why should<br \/>\nwe, when there are so many mongongo nuts in the world?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p align=\"right\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.agron.iastate.edu\/courses\/agron342\/diamondmistake.html\">The Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race, by Jared Diamond<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Studies of hunter-gatherers have shown that some only need to work for 2 hours a day to support themselves. One Bushman, when asked why he hadn&#8217;t emulated neighbouring tribes by adopting agriculture, replied, &#8220;Why should we, when there are so many mongongo nuts in the world?&#8221; The Worst Mistake in the History of the Human [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotes"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5KQtW-4Z","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}