{"id":476,"date":"2007-04-23T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-23T03:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mercurystate.wordpress.com\/2007\/04\/23\/pointing-the-finger\/"},"modified":"2016-10-20T01:32:03","modified_gmt":"2016-10-20T05:32:03","slug":"pointing-the-finger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seekingsol.com\/pointing-the-finger\/","title":{"rendered":"pointing the finger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I blame the absence of a weekend post on the fact that my fingers have kept busy these last few late nights turning the pages of the following:<a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outgoing\/www.amazon.com\/Sugar-Blues-William-Dufty\/dp\/0446343129\/ref=as_li_ss_il?ie=UTF8&amp;linkCode=li2&amp;tag=seekingsol-20&amp;linkId=9fe8062b8ccb0ea8fdcad34109443391');\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Sugar-Blues-William-Dufty\/dp\/0446343129\/ref=as_li_ss_il?ie=UTF8&amp;linkCode=li2&amp;tag=seekingsol-20&amp;linkId=9fe8062b8ccb0ea8fdcad34109443391\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?_encoding=UTF8&amp;ASIN=0446343129&amp;Format=_SL160_&amp;ID=AsinImage&amp;MarketPlace=US&amp;ServiceVersion=20070822&amp;WS=1&amp;tag=seekingsol-20\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2e8rzWH\"><br \/>\nAmazon Reader Reviews: Sugar Blues &#8211; William Duffy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s outdated, and makes some sweeping assumptions that I sometimes grimaced at, but if you like world history, international politics, and credible corporate conspiracy theories of the &#8220;disease establishment&#8221; &#8212; then this book might also inspire you to do a little experiential experimentation of your own.<\/p>\n<p>Now that I&#8217;ve turned the last page (and officially started a sugar fast), I&#8217;ll soon be back with another Senegal story that&#8217;s been churning in the back of my head for three nights now.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I blame the absence of a weekend post on the fact that my fingers have kept busy these last few late nights turning the pages of the following: Amazon Reader Reviews: Sugar Blues &#8211; William&#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"more\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/seekingsol.com\/pointing-the-finger\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2971,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,53],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>pointing the finger - Christina Rivera<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/seekingsol.com\/pointing-the-finger\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"pointing the finger - Christina Rivera\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I blame the absence of a weekend post on the fact that my fingers have kept busy these last few late nights turning the pages of the following: Amazon Reader Reviews: Sugar Blues &#8211; William... 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