{"id":4298,"date":"2025-12-22T19:11:33","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T03:11:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davidraffin.com\/weblog\/mother-jones-was-the-most-dangerous-woman-in-the-world\/"},"modified":"2025-12-22T19:11:33","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T03:11:33","slug":"mother-jones-was-the-most-dangerous-woman-in-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidraffin.com\/weblog\/mother-jones-was-the-most-dangerous-woman-in-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Mother Jones was the most dangerous woman in the world"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Mother Jones used to march down the street to protest. Never looking back to see if anybody was following her. They called her the most dangerous woman in the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I almost put her in my novel, Lonesome Travelers. From before. Before she did those things. When her whole family died in a plague. And she sat in the house with their bodies. Mark on the door. Plague. Waiting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Happy holidays, everybody!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"776\" height=\"1024\" data-attachment-id=\"4297\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/davidraffin.com\/weblog\/img_7293\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/davidraffin.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/img_7293.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"792,1045\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"img_7293\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/davidraffin.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/img_7293-776x1024.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/davidraffin.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/img_7293-776x1024.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-4297\" srcset=\"https:\/\/davidraffin.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/img_7293-776x1024.jpg 776w, https:\/\/davidraffin.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/img_7293-227x300.jpg 227w, https:\/\/davidraffin.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/img_7293-768x1013.jpg 768w, https:\/\/davidraffin.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/img_7293-720x950.jpg 720w, https:\/\/davidraffin.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/img_7293.jpg 792w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 776px) 100vw, 776px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mother Jones used to march down the street to protest. Never looking back to see if anybody was following her. They called her the most dangerous woman in the world. I almost put her in my novel, Lonesome Travelers. From before. Before she did those things. When her whole family died in a plague. And she sat in the house with their bodies. Mark on the door. Plague. Waiting. Happy holidays, everybody!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Mother Jones was the most dangerous woman in the world","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[17,150,104,190,155,64],"class_list":["post-4298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing","tag-philosophy","tag-politics","tag-protest","tag-psychology","tag-revolution","tag-story"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3u13S-17k","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1316,"url":"https:\/\/davidraffin.com\/weblog\/reign-of-error\/","url_meta":{"origin":4298,"position":0},"title":"Reign of error","author":"David Raffin","date":"January 12, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Hark, dear friends, a terrible fate America ran down the sewer grate Beavers shouted \u201cdamn!\u201d But it was too late They were attending a party at 10,000 a plate \u201cWhat to do?\u201d said the otter to its mate \u201cWhy I otter\u2026\u201d was the reply-but it was too late The Dragon\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;My books&quot;","block_context":{"text":"My books","link":"https:\/\/davidraffin.com\/weblog\/category\/books\/my-books\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/davidraffin.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/img_0158.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/davidraffin.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/img_0158.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/davidraffin.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/img_0158.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/davidraffin.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/img_0158.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/davidraffin.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/img_0158.jpg?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/davidraffin.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/img_0158.jpg?resize=1400%2C800&ssl=1 4x"},"classes":[]},{"id":4269,"url":"https:\/\/davidraffin.com\/weblog\/the-story-of-joe-hill\/","url_meta":{"origin":4298,"position":1},"title":"The story of Joe Hill","author":"David Raffin","date":"December 8, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"An excerpt from the novel Lonesome Travelers \u201cI\u2019ll take the shooting. 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