{"id":60791,"date":"2022-11-30T03:41:39","date_gmt":"2022-11-30T09:41:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hcsblogdotorg.wordpress.com\/?p=60791"},"modified":"2022-11-30T03:41:39","modified_gmt":"2022-11-30T09:41:39","slug":"the-children-of-men-in-real-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/30\/the-children-of-men-in-real-time\/","title":{"rendered":"The Children of Men in Real Time?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-60797\" src=\"https:\/\/hcsblogdotorg.files.wordpress.com\/2022\/11\/children6.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"341\" height=\"499\" \/><\/h1>\n<h1 class=\"sc-1xt8011-0 gCOESJ\" style=\"text-align:center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/science\/sperm-count-global-decline-study-b2234155.html\">Study finds \u2018alarming\u2019 decline in sperm count across world<\/a><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>So it appears another classic dystopian novel is proving to be eerily prophetic.<\/h2>\n<h2>First it was 1984, then <a href=\"https:\/\/hcsblogdotorg.wordpress.com\/2021\/10\/26\/thank-you-for-your-service\/\">Soylent Green,<\/a> then <a href=\"https:\/\/hcsblogdotorg.wordpress.com\/2021\/10\/15\/the-camp-of-the-saints\/\">Camp of the Saint&#8217;s<\/a> now it is\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Children-Men-P-D-James\/dp\/0679418733\/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;qid=1669799512&amp;sr=8-3\">The Children of Men.<\/a><\/h2>\n<h2>For those who have not read the novel I will spare you any spoilers but suffice to say the parallels are spooky.<\/h2>\n<h2>FYI: Although <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0206634\/\">The 2006 Movie adaptation<\/a> with Clive Owen and Michael Caine was entertaining (and again frightfully prophetic with the U.K.&#8217;s mass immigration policies now turning into a living nightmare) I still say go for the Novel.<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-60386\" src=\"https:\/\/hcsblogdotorg.files.wordpress.com\/2022\/11\/youarehere.jpg?w=620\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"620\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-60801\" src=\"https:\/\/hcsblogdotorg.files.wordpress.com\/2022\/11\/orwell3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"271\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Study finds \u2018alarming\u2019 decline in sperm count across world &nbsp; So it appears another classic dystopian novel is proving to be eerily prophetic. First it was 1984, then Soylent Green, then Camp of the Saint&#8217;s now it is\u00a0 The Children of Men. For those who have not read the novel I will spare you any&#8230;<\/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_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[3958,10143,15169,932,1427,473,74,14643,5594,14200,4634,7988],"tags":[7136,6740,9848,1868,6482,474,15320,15321,15322,15323,15222],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60791"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60791\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}