{"id":222,"date":"2003-09-23T21:02:47","date_gmt":"2003-09-23T21:02:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=222"},"modified":"2003-09-23T21:02:47","modified_gmt":"2003-09-23T21:02:47","slug":"hl_mencken_was","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=222","title":{"rendered":"HL Mencken Was Right"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just finished messing around with the <a href=\"http:\/\/homeworld2.sierra.com\/\">Homeworld 2<\/a> demo.  It&#8217;s pretty cool.  I liked the first Homeworld but never finished it.  The interface takes some getting used to, but I was surprised by how quickly the mind adjusts to thinking in three dimensions.<br \/>\nAnd now I must get off the computer before my eyes roll out of their sockets and plop onto my desk.  But before I go, check out this <a href=\"http:\/\/images.amazon.com\/images\/P\/0743485076.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg\">book cover<\/a>.  I have this book (not this edition, of course), I love this book, and all I can say is&#8230;WHAT THE FUCK?!  Has consumerism just driven us completely INSANE?  Are we<em> trying<\/em> to prove to the rest of the world that our culture can&#8217;t be beat when it comes to superficiality and pure inanity?<br \/>\nI mean, jebus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just finished messing around with the Homeworld 2 demo. It&#8217;s pretty cool. I liked the first Homeworld but never finished it. The interface takes some getting used to, but I was surprised by how quickly the mind adjusts to thinking in three dimensions. And now I must get off the computer before my eyes roll <a href='https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=222' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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-222","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-3A","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222","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=222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}