{"id":10541,"date":"2017-07-12T14:32:24","date_gmt":"2017-07-12T18:32:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=10541"},"modified":"2017-07-13T14:26:00","modified_gmt":"2017-07-13T18:26:00","slug":"this-land-is-our-land","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=10541","title":{"rendered":"<em>This Land Is Our Land<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<hr>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/our-land.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"997\" height=\"1044\" src=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/our-land.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10542\" srcset=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/our-land.jpg 997w, https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/our-land-286x300.jpg 286w, https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/our-land-768x804.jpg 768w, https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/our-land-978x1024.jpg 978w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ken has completed his next book, and it is due at the publisher this week. The book is <em>This Land Is Our Land: How we lost the right to roam and how to take it back<\/em>. It will be released next April.<\/p>\n<p>The book came about after Ken published a piece in the New York Times last year, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/04\/24\/opinion\/sunday\/this-is-our-country-lets-walk-it.html\">This Is Our Country. Let&#8217;s Walk It<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ken calls the book radical. But having read the manuscript two or three times, I would say that it&#8217;s radical only to those who hold, as Ken says, a despotic view of property rights. The book is scholarly but very readable (as Ken always is). It&#8217;s brilliantly researched and documented, with 575 footnotes. It is, in many ways, a book about the law. But it also imagines a future that I&#8217;m pretty sure the readers of this blog would like.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ken has completed his next book, and it is due at the publisher this week. The book is This Land Is Our Land: How we lost the right to roam and how to take it back. It will be released next April. The book came about after Ken published a piece in the New York &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=10541\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;<em>This Land Is Our Land<\/em>&#8220;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literature","category-political-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10541"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10546,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10541\/revisions\/10546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}