{"id":10635,"date":"2014-03-06T09:00:06","date_gmt":"2014-03-06T14:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=10635"},"modified":"2014-03-06T07:49:19","modified_gmt":"2014-03-06T12:49:19","slug":"the-zombies-cometh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2014\/the-zombies-cometh\/","title":{"rendered":"The Zombies Cometh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/030614_1246_TheZombiesC1.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"383\" \/><\/p>\n<p>One Zombie Apocalypse has already begun writes Erica E. Phillips:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Zombies are generally thought to crave fresh human brains. The increasing amount of academic resources devoted to studying them indicates that they have been successful in attaining it.<\/li>\n<li>In the past five years there have been 20 scholarly books with the word &#8216;zombie&#8217; in the title.<\/li>\n<li>JSTOR, an archive of academic journals has also recorded a significant uptick in the number of papers that refer to Zombies.<\/li>\n<li>An increasing number of college courses allow students to study zombies.<\/li>\n<li>Fields such as economics (&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Economics-Undead-Blood-Brains-Benjamins\/dp\/1442235020\/ref=as_li_ss_til?tag=centives-20&amp;linkCode=w01&amp;creativeASIN=1442235020\">The economics of the Undead<\/a>&#8220;), media studies (&#8220;Zombie sexuality&#8221;), and literature have tackled the subject.<\/li>\n<li>Defenders of the trend point out that Zombie studies are used to analyze more serious topics such as slavery, religion, and even post-traumatic stress disorder.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more about those who think that this is all a waste, the places where you can study zombies, and more over <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/news\/articles\/SB10001424052702304851104579361451951384512\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/news\/articles\/SB10001424052702304851104579361451951384512\">The Wall Street Journal<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One Zombie Apocalypse has already begun writes Erica E. Phillips: Zombies are generally thought to crave fresh human brains. The increasing amount of academic resources devoted to studying them indicates that they have been successful in attaining it. In the past five years there have been 20 scholarly books with the word &#8216;zombie&#8217; in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10634,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/030614_1246_TheZombiesC1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10635"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10638,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10635\/revisions\/10638"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}