{"id":1067,"date":"2020-08-16T10:21:28","date_gmt":"2020-08-16T09:21:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1067"},"modified":"2020-08-16T10:21:28","modified_gmt":"2020-08-16T09:21:28","slug":"all-quiet-on-the-western-front","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/2020\/08\/all-quiet-on-the-western-front\/","title":{"rendered":"All quiet on the Western Front"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Military clich\u00e9s are everywhere.<\/p>\n<p>Six months and no posts.  Been too busy, too confused.<\/p>\n<p>Could have written about the incredible blatant racism I have witnessed in Milton Keynes.<br \/>\nCould have written about job searching.<br \/>\nCould have written about working for the NHS during lockdown and going in to work every day.<br \/>\nThe paranoia of people seeing my NHS id.  This misleading and terror created by the media.<br \/>\nReflections on how easy it was to implement a global lockdown.<br \/>\nReflections on what happens when the leadership does not follow its own instructions and gets away with it.<br \/>\nReflections on the relevance of Niccol\u00f2 Machiavelli&#8217;s <em>The Prince<\/em> as a guide book in 2020.<br \/>\nCould have written about getting work with the Cabinet Office.<br \/>\nCould have written about my reflections on my two degrees.<br \/>\nCould have written about the silence of the 75th anniversary of the Japan nuclear bombings and the celebration of war for VJ Day.<br \/>\nCould have written about how my plans have been on hold for six months.<br \/>\nCould have written about how some employers have been superb during lockdown and others have been utter and absolute spineless and evil bastards.<br \/>\nCould have written about the falsehoods around online activity being high CO<\/sub>2<\/sub> consuming activities.  I had promised the SGR I would.<br \/>\nEvery day there has been something to write about, and my ToDo list does say, every day, &#8220;Post something on the blog&#8221;.  But time, where does it all go?<\/p>\n<p>It is hard to be an unemployed jobseeker and be positive and creative to wrote blog posts.  Then, when doing a new job, one is tired and busy.<\/p>\n<p>It is hard to change the world when changing one&#8217;s own.  It is hard to <em>write<\/em> when busy <em>doing<\/em>.  I shall try again, from today, now I feel a little more settled in my new role.<\/p>\n<p>You know, bite the bullet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Military clich\u00e9s are everywhere. Six months and no posts. Been too busy, too confused. Could have written about the incredible blatant racism I have witnessed in Milton Keynes. Could have written about job searching. Could have written about working for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/2020\/08\/all-quiet-on-the-western-front\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[318,199,240,64,316,145,15,10,30,241],"tags":[319,201,242,65,317,20,115,109,126,243],"class_list":["post-1067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging","category-career","category-career-change","category-employment","category-everyday-militarism","category-fear","category-living-with-fear","category-media","category-personal-progress","category-reflection","tag-blogging","tag-career","tag-career-change","tag-employment","tag-everyday-militarism","tag-fear","tag-living-with-fear","tag-media","tag-personal-progress","tag-reflection"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1067"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1068,"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1067\/revisions\/1068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}