{"id":44182,"date":"2015-03-25T15:41:01","date_gmt":"2015-03-25T15:41:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=44182"},"modified":"2015-03-25T15:41:35","modified_gmt":"2015-03-25T15:41:35","slug":"jessica-stern-and-dancing-lessons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=44182","title":{"rendered":"Jessica Stern and dancing lessons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[ by <strong>Charles Cameron<\/strong> &#8212; a trifle, in which life follows art as one of my favorite Vonnegut \/ Bokonon quotes comes to life ]<br \/>\n.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/SPEC-DQ-Stern-Vonnegut.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/SPEC-DQ-Stern-Vonnegut.png\" alt=\"SPEC DQ Stern Vonnegut\" width=\"602\" height=\"633\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-44183\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/SPEC-DQ-Stern-Vonnegut.png 602w, https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/SPEC-DQ-Stern-Vonnegut-285x300.png 285w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 602px) 100vw, 602px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p>Sources:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<li>UN Dispatch, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.undispatch.com\/episode-57-jessica-stern\/\"><strong>Mark Leon Goldberg<\/strong> interviews <strong>Jessica Stern<\/strong><\/a>:\n<p>Jessica Stern was a mid level National Security Council staffer when Hollywood literally came calling. Nicole Kidman portrayed a fictionalized version of her work as a nuclear security analyst in the Clinton White House in the film \u201cThe Peacemaker\u201d (also starring George Clooney). Stern\u2019s academic and professional life have taken some interesting turns. In the 2000s she published groundbreaking research on what motivates individuals to commit violent acts of terror, and she did so by speaking to actual terrorists. Stern recently published a new book called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/ISIS-State-Terror-Jessica-Stern\/dp\/0062395548\">ISIS: State of Terror<\/a>, co-authored by J.M. Berger that takes a deep dive into the historic origins of the so-called Islamic State.<\/p>\n<p>This is a great episode with fun and fascinating stories from a longtime national security wonk. Enjoy.<\/p>\n<li>The prophet Bokonon, in Kurt Vonnegut, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Cats-Cradle-Novel-Kurt-Vonnegut\/dp\/038533348X\">Cat&#8217;s Cradle<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Jessica Stern, in the quote above, is describing the twists and turns which brought her via the NSC to the set of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/The-Peacemaker-George-Clooney\/dp\/078323550X\">The Peacemaker<\/a>. Quite a story, I recommend the interview &#8212; and the dance goes on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ by Charles Cameron &#8212; a trifle, in which life follows art as one of my favorite Vonnegut \/ Bokonon quotes comes to life ] . ** Sources: UN Dispatch, Mark Leon Goldberg interviews Jessica Stern: Jessica Stern was a mid level National Security Council staffer when Hollywood literally came calling. Nicole Kidman portrayed a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[526,1078,1047,652,67,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-charles-cameron","category-is","category-isis","category-literature","category-movies","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44182"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44196,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44182\/revisions\/44196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}