{"id":290816,"date":"2025-03-31T12:00:26","date_gmt":"2025-03-31T11:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=290816"},"modified":"2025-03-23T09:07:27","modified_gmt":"2025-03-23T09:07:27","slug":"the-lord-of-the-flies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2025\/03\/the-lord-of-the-flies\/","title":{"rendered":"The Lord of the Flies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>No comment<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_290805\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/lord-of-the-flies-netanyahu.webp\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-290805\" class=\"wp-image-290805\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/lord-of-the-flies-netanyahu-1024x824.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"322\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/lord-of-the-flies-netanyahu-1024x824.webp 1024w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/lord-of-the-flies-netanyahu-300x241.webp 300w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/lord-of-the-flies-netanyahu-768x618.webp 768w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/lord-of-the-flies-netanyahu.webp 1456w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-290805\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lord of the Flies &#8211; by Mr. Fish<\/p><\/div>\n<p>[Note from TMS editor: <i>Lord of the Flies<\/i> is the 1954 debut novel of British author William Golding that depicts a group of British boys who are stranded on an uninhabited island and their disastrous attempts to govern themselves. The supposed civilized boys end up practicing cannibalism within a short space of time.]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/food-for-thought-logo2-1.png\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-151697\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/food-for-thought-logo2-1-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><em>___________________________________________<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/xbyline-ADwayne-Booth-mr-fish-e1711691174161.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-258287\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/xbyline-ADwayne-Booth-mr-fish-e1711691174161.jpg\" alt=\"mr fish dwayne booth\" width=\"100\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> Dwayne Booth (a.k.a. Mr. Fish) is a cartoonist and freelance writer, has been published in many reputable and prestigious magazines, journals and newspapers. In addition to <\/em>Harper\u2019s Magazine<em>, his work has appeared in <\/em>The Los Angeles Times, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?s=Mr.+Fish\" >TRANSCEND Media Service<\/a>, The Village Voice, Vanity Fair, Mother Jones Magazine, the Advocate, Z Magazine, the Utne Reader, Slate.com, MSNBC.com<em> and various European newspapers. He has also written novels, screenplays, short fiction and cultural criticism collections, and several volumes of political cartoons.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No comment<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":151697,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[213],"tags":[1012,475],"class_list":["post-290816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-food-for-thought","tag-food-for-thought-editorial-cartoon","tag-netanyahu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290816"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":290817,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290816\/revisions\/290817"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/151697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}