{"id":16,"date":"2009-12-24T15:08:49","date_gmt":"2009-12-24T15:08:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.subbrilliant.com\/boilingpoint\/?p=16"},"modified":"2009-12-24T15:10:40","modified_gmt":"2009-12-24T15:10:40","slug":"the-original-back-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.subbrilliant.com\/boilingpoint\/?p=16","title":{"rendered":"The original back story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I first got the idea for Boiling Point I was working as an intern at National Public Radio in the first 5 months of the Clinton administration in 1993. A lot of my duties involved going down into the library and researching.\u00a0 At one point I ran across a book called &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B000MC1PLO?tag=subbrcom-20&amp;camp=14573&amp;creative=327641&amp;linkCode=as1&amp;creativeASIN=B000MC1PLO&amp;adid=17H1GGC4128AYW0R4JPG&amp;\">The Nine Nations of North America<\/a>&#8221; by Joel Garreau. It talks about the cultural unity of different regions of the continent that have nothing to do with state or national borders.<\/p>\n<p>So I started writing a story of events that take place leading to the breakup of the US.\u00a0 I was also partly inspired by the breakup of the once monolithic Soviet Union. I actually made a map in pencil and changed the borders as I wrote out the story. What I wrote eventually served as a back story for a series of radio broadcasts I created called Nations. I thin wrote Boiling Point around those radio scripts.<\/p>\n<p>I intend to put all this stuff up on the site. The first thing I have up is the back story. I have modified it slightly from the original to give it more depth and clarity, but it&#8217;s essentially just a history of the United States during the breakup. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.subbrilliant.com\/boilingpoint\/?page_id=9\">Read it here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I first got the idea for Boiling Point I was working as an intern at National Public Radio in the first 5 months of the Clinton administration in 1993. A lot of my duties involved going down into the library and researching.\u00a0 At one point I ran across a book called &#8216;The Nine Nations [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.subbrilliant.com\/boilingpoint\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.subbrilliant.com\/boilingpoint\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.subbrilliant.com\/boilingpoint\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.subbrilliant.com\/boilingpoint\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.subbrilliant.com\/boilingpoint\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.subbrilliant.com\/boilingpoint\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18,"href":"http:\/\/www.subbrilliant.com\/boilingpoint\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions\/18"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.subbrilliant.com\/boilingpoint\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.subbrilliant.com\/boilingpoint\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.subbrilliant.com\/boilingpoint\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}