{"id":42183,"date":"2011-07-26T02:04:06","date_gmt":"2011-07-26T06:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=42183"},"modified":"2011-07-26T02:15:18","modified_gmt":"2011-07-26T06:15:18","slug":"guest-oracle-american-studies-with-abraham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-oracle\/guest-oracle-american-studies-with-abraham\/","title":{"rendered":"Guest Oracle: American Studies with Abraham"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_42184\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-42184\" style=\"width: 590px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/600+web-abraham-hicks.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/600+web-abraham-hicks.jpg?resize=600%2C329&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" title=\"600+web-abraham-hicks\" width=\"600\" height=\"329\" class=\"size-full wp-image-42184\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/600+web-abraham-hicks.jpg?w=600&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/600+web-abraham-hicks.jpg?resize=300%2C164&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-42184\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Copyright \u00a9 Abraham-Hicks, all rights reserved.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I first encountered this idea in a class called American Norms and Deviations with Prof. Robert Knox Denton at SUNY Buffalo. My professor&#8217;s theory was that when a law is passed, it creates a new category of deviants or criminals out of people who were considered normal, and whose activity was considered lawful, the day before. This happens over and over again until finally, everyone is included, sometimes many times, in one definition of deviant or another.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I first encountered this idea in a class called American Norms and Deviations with Prof. Robert Knox Denton at SUNY Buffalo. My professor&#8217;s theory was that when a law is passed, it creates a new category of deviants or criminals out of people who were considered normal, and whose activity was considered lawful, the day &#8230; <a title=\"Guest Oracle: American Studies with Abraham\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-oracle\/guest-oracle-american-studies-with-abraham\/\" aria-label=\"More on Guest Oracle: American Studies with Abraham\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":""},"categories":[93],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42183"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}