{"id":1405,"date":"2009-06-08T11:05:47","date_gmt":"2009-06-08T09:05:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/?p=1405"},"modified":"2009-06-08T12:56:47","modified_gmt":"2009-06-08T10:56:47","slug":"how-to-succeed-in-evil-and-other-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/how-to-succeed-in-evil-and-other-stories\/","title":{"rendered":"How to succeed in evil: Pirate lawyers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of years ago I found How to Succeed in Evil by Patrick E. McLean, and now it&#8217;s available in a more polished version. It would be difficult to improve on the original story, but the calm and balmy voice of Patrick makes a listen worthwhile. I recommend a listen: <a href=\"http:\/\/succeedinevil.com\/\">How to Succeed in Evil<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Below is an unrelated short story he published a couple of years ago, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theseanachai.com\/2005\/01\/02\/the-vampire-in-the-attic\/\">Vampire in the Attic<\/a>.<\/p>\n[audio:https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/the-vampire-in-the-attic.mp3]\n<p>Not long ago <a href=\"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/?p=1273\">I posted<\/a> a short audio segment that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/money\/\">Planet Money<\/a> had produced on the Somali pirates. They followed up the story and talked to the negotiator for the pirates, Mr. Ali.<\/p>\n<p>Link to full episode: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/money\/2009\/05\/hear_and_three_baby_camels.html\">And three baby camels<\/a>.<\/p>\n[audio:https:\/\/monocultured.com\/misc\/NPR_pirates2.mp3]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of years ago I found How to Succeed in Evil by Patrick E. McLean, and now it&#8217;s available in a more polished version. It would be difficult to improve on the original story, but the calm and balmy voice of Patrick makes a listen worthwhile. I recommend a listen: How to Succeed in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/how-to-succeed-in-evil-and-other-stories\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How to succeed in evil: Pirate lawyers<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559,4],"tags":[763,767,762,758,442,765,768,766],"class_list":["post-1405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-audio","category-found","tag-lawyers","tag-nosferatu","tag-npr-planet-money","tag-pirates","tag-radio","tag-somalia","tag-soothing-voice","tag-vampire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1405"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1429,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1405\/revisions\/1429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}