{"id":1572,"date":"2007-05-09T18:13:47","date_gmt":"2007-05-09T18:13:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1572"},"modified":"2007-05-09T18:13:47","modified_gmt":"2007-05-09T18:13:47","slug":"robots_and_spee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1572","title":{"rendered":"Robots And Speed Freaks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Did anyone notice the high geek quotient of last Sunday&#8217;s Arts section of the NY Times? It featured a lengthy assessment of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/05\/06\/books\/06mcgr.html?_r=1&amp;ref=movies&amp;oref=slogin\">Philip K. Dick&#8217;s cultural significance<\/a> as well as a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/05\/06\/arts\/television\/06newm.html?ref=television\">fond recollection of Mystery Science Theater 3000<\/a>. I need to pick up a few more Dick novels. I&#8217;ve read <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Man-High-Castle-Sf-Masterworks\/dp\/0575073357\/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1\/103-7009504-2921414?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1178750613&amp;sr=8-1\">The Man in the High Castle<\/a><\/i> and liked it (even though I found all the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/I_ching\">I Ching<\/a> references a little tiresome), but that&#8217;s the extent of my familiarity with his oeuvre. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m leaving shortly to check out Peter Bjorn &amp; John in concert. I expect to be charmed but not astounded. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did anyone notice the high geek quotient of last Sunday&#8217;s Arts section of the NY Times? It featured a lengthy assessment of Philip K. Dick&#8217;s cultural significance as well as a fond recollection of Mystery Science Theater 3000. I need to pick up a few more Dick novels. I&#8217;ve read The Man in the High <a href='https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1572' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":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":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-pm","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1572\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}