{"id":2355,"date":"2005-04-29T12:23:00","date_gmt":"2005-04-29T16:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yummy-wakame.com\/archives\/2005\/04\/29\/\/"},"modified":"2005-04-29T12:23:00","modified_gmt":"2005-04-29T16:23:00","slug":"radical-experiments-in-communal-living","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/2005\/04\/radical-experiments-in-communal-living\/","title":{"rendered":"Radical experiments in communal living"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>This is an absolutely fascinating documentary. Could you imagine living like this? I would have absolutely loved to grow up like this&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>WHERE THE WILD KIDS ARE <\/strong><br \/>BBC Radio 4, Documentary<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/radio\/aod\/radio4_aod.shtml?radio4\/wild_kids\" rel=\"external\">Listen to the archived program<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In 1972, six groups of parents embarked on a ten-year experiment that involved them &ldquo;pooling&rdquo; their children ? 16 of them. Since none of the children now &ldquo;belonged&rdquo; to any of the parents they all took the same surname ? Wild ? and moved between homes on a rota basis. It was the sort of thing people did in the immediate post-hippy years, experimenting with social structures in a bid to come up with Utopia. Gerry Kennedy tracks them all down.<\/p>\n<p>The early 1970s saw numerous experiments in alternative ways of living, but few as intriguing as a group of communes whose members decided that the children would not be raised just by their natural parents, but collectively. To reinforce this, and since none of the children &ldquo;belonged&rdquo; to any of the parents they all took the same surname ? Wild ? and moved between homes on a rota basis.<\/p>\n<p>Gerry Kennedy tracks down the Wild kids to see how they turned out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is an absolutely fascinating documentary. Could you imagine living like this? I would have absolutely loved to grow up like this&#8230; WHERE THE WILD KIDS ARE BBC Radio 4, DocumentaryListen to the archived program In 1972, six groups of parents embarked on a ten-year experiment that involved them &ldquo;pooling&rdquo; their children ? 16 of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogalog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2355\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}