{"id":1470,"date":"2020-03-15T16:02:35","date_gmt":"2020-03-15T23:02:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thezachproject.us\/?p=1470"},"modified":"2020-03-15T16:02:35","modified_gmt":"2020-03-15T23:02:35","slug":"the-sheep-look-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thezachproject.us\/index.php\/2020\/03\/15\/the-sheep-look-up\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sheep Look Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The Sheep Look Up<\/em> is a title of a John Brunner novel from the early 1970&#8217;s. In my mind it always went along with his earlier novel <em>Stand On Zanzibar<\/em> in its dystopian view of the world. I read them when they came out and still have my original (paperback) copies. After the events of the last couple of weeks, I dug out my copy of <em>The Sheep Look Up.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s pretty strident. Brunner&#8217;s anger shows through on every page. Reading it again made me think about what we all thought about pollution in those days and what we did about it.<\/p>\n<p><em>Stand On Zanzibar<\/em> had a relatively upbeat ending, though, whereas <em>The Sheep Look Up<\/em> does not. Air, sea and land are poisoned so thoroughly worldwide that human survival is in question.<\/p>\n<p>The last chapter is simply a quote from the John Milton poem <em>Lycidas:<\/em><\/p>\n<dl>\n<dd><i>The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed,<br \/>\n<\/i><i>But swoln with wind, and the rank mist they draw,<br \/>\n<\/i><i>Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread.<br \/>\n<\/i><\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sheep Look Up is a title of a John Brunner novel from the early 1970&#8217;s. In my mind it always went along with his earlier novel Stand On Zanzibar [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[612],"tags":[613],"class_list":["post-1470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-john-brunner"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thezachproject.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thezachproject.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thezachproject.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thezachproject.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thezachproject.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1470"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thezachproject.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1471,"href":"https:\/\/thezachproject.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1470\/revisions\/1471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thezachproject.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thezachproject.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thezachproject.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}