{"id":57,"date":"2006-06-30T20:07:46","date_gmt":"2006-06-30T14:07:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/?p=57"},"modified":"2006-06-30T20:07:46","modified_gmt":"2006-06-30T14:07:46","slug":"the-turning-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/countries\/asia\/bhutan\/57","title":{"rendered":"The Turning Point"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The one thing that I enjoyed on the way back from India was reading a book I&#8217;d picked up at a shop in Varanasi. It&#8217;s called Turning Point by Fritjof Capra, one of my favourite science writers. He talks about some of the major problems the world is facing &#8211; health, environment, economic &#8211; as relevant now as it was when he wrote the book 20 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Although I don&#8217;t agree entirely with his list of problems, his description of the causes resonates beautifully with my own. He&#8217;s obviously done a lot of research on the subject and I&#8217;m prepared to accept his thoughts over mine. I&#8217;m looking forward to getting to the end of the book to see what solutions he offers to get through our current problems.<\/p>\n<p>Imagine a world where people didn&#8217;t have to get cut open to fix problems, where people work for self-worth rather than money and survival. It&#8217;s possible and may not be too far away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The one thing that I enjoyed on the way back from India was reading a book I&#8217;d picked up at a shop in Varanasi. It&#8217;s called Turning Point by Fritjof Capra, one of my favourite science writers. He talks about some of the major problems the world is facing &#8211; health, environment, economic &#8211; as&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/countries\/asia\/bhutan\/57\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Turning Point<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}