{"id":43041,"date":"2022-03-09T11:05:13","date_gmt":"2022-03-09T11:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricagazette.com\/?p=43041"},"modified":"2022-03-09T11:05:13","modified_gmt":"2022-03-09T11:05:13","slug":"before-metoo-before-school-board-meltdowns-most-big-movements-start-small-the-quiet-before-is-about-the-whisper-campaigns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricagazette.com\/before-metoo-before-school-board-meltdowns-most-big-movements-start-small-the-quiet-before-is-about-the-whisper-campaigns\/","title":{"rendered":"Before #MeToo, before school board meltdowns, most big movements start small. \u2018The Quiet Before\u2019 is about the whisper campaigns."},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 75px;height: 75px;border-radius: 50%;background: url(https:\/\/nordot-res.cloudinary.com\/c_limit,w_200,h_200,f_auto,q_auto:eco\/ch\/units\/559943369233499233\/profile_1.png);background-position: center;background-size: cover;vertical-align: middle\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-left: 5px;font-size: 14px;font-weight: bold;vertical-align: middle\">Published by <br \/>Chicago Tribune<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 10px\"><\/div>\n<p>So I\u2019m reading \u201cThe Quiet Before: On the Unexpected Origins of Radical Ideas,\u201d Gal Beckerman\u2019s excellent new book on the modest roots of massive sea changes, and the butterfly effect-like flutter of a parlor game forms in my head. I make leaps of logic that, though overly tidy, are compelling. For instance, if Filippo Marinetti, the ringleader of the Futurist activists in early 20th century Italy \u2014 a guy who resembled \u201ca silent movie villain about to tie a woman to the railroad tracks\u201d \u2014 had not written war-hungry, scorched-earth manifestos, if his ideas had not influenced Benito Mussolini, th&#8230;<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"nordot-read-more \" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nordot.app\/874241990154158080?c=819177386184916992\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Published by Chicago Tribune So I\u2019m reading \u201cThe Quiet Before: On the Unexpected Origins of Radical Ideas,\u201d Gal Beckerman\u2019s excellent new book on the modest roots of massive sea changes, and the butterfly effect-like flutter of a parlor game forms in my head. I make leaps of logic that, though overly tidy, are compelling. For &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/southafricagazette.com\/before-metoo-before-school-board-meltdowns-most-big-movements-start-small-the-quiet-before-is-about-the-whisper-campaigns\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Before #MeToo, before school board meltdowns, most big movements start small. \u2018The Quiet Before\u2019 is about the whisper campaigns.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":43043,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricagazette.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43041"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricagazette.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricagazette.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricagazette.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43041"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/southafricagazette.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43042,"href":"https:\/\/southafricagazette.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43041\/revisions\/43042"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricagazette.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricagazette.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricagazette.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricagazette.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}