{"id":551,"date":"2020-08-22T09:34:21","date_gmt":"2020-08-22T16:34:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/?p=551"},"modified":"2020-08-22T09:34:21","modified_gmt":"2020-08-22T16:34:21","slug":"how-covid-19-signals-the-end-of-the-american-era-rolling-stone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/2020\/08\/22\/how-covid-19-signals-the-end-of-the-american-era-rolling-stone\/","title":{"rendered":"How Covid-19 Signals the End of the American Era &#8211; Rolling Stone"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Never in our lives have we experienced such a global phenomenon. For the first time in the history of the world, all of humanity, informed by the unprecedented reach of digital technology, has come together, focused on the same existential threat, consumed by the same fears and uncertainties, eagerly anticipating the same, as yet unrealized, promises of medical science.<br \/>\nIn a single season, civilization has been brought low by a microscopic parasite 10,000 times smaller than a grain of salt. COVID-19 attacks our physical bodies, but also the cultural foundations of our lives, the toolbox of community and connectivity that is for the human what claws and teeth represent to the tiger.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Via: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/politics\/political-commentary\/covid-19-end-of-american-era-wade-davis-1038206\/\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow external noopener noreferrer\" class=\"wpel-icon-left\"><i class=\"wpel-icon dashicons-before dashicons-admin-links\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i>How Covid-19 Signals the End of the American Era &#8211; Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Never in our lives have we experienced such a global phenomenon. For the first time in the history of the world, all of humanity, informed by the unprecedented reach of digital technology, has come together, focused on the same existential threat, consumed by the same fears and uncertainties, eagerly anticipating the same, as yet unrealized, &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/2020\/08\/22\/how-covid-19-signals-the-end-of-the-american-era-rolling-stone\/\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}