{"id":5881,"date":"2012-11-30T07:39:47","date_gmt":"2012-11-30T12:39:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/?p=5881"},"modified":"2012-11-30T13:38:31","modified_gmt":"2012-11-30T18:38:31","slug":"recalling-abbie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/2012\/11\/recalling-abbie.html","title":{"rendered":"Recalling Abbie"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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\nActivist and provocateur Abbie Hoffman would have been seventy-six today. One of the background people of my youth and young adulthood he brought a certain cockeyed humor to deadly serious issues of the day. Working in bookstores I recall his Steal this Book bumped the Bible as the most stolen title for a brief time. Today I\u2019m not sure how many people not of my generation have a clue as to who he was, except perhaps some Occupy folk for whom he could if one noticed stand as something of a patron saint. Or, as it turns out, as the hook to a song\u2026 Ah, sands of time\u2026<\/p>\n