{"id":2285,"date":"2009-04-27T19:58:49","date_gmt":"2009-04-27T19:58:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2285"},"modified":"2009-04-27T19:58:49","modified_gmt":"2009-04-27T19:58:49","slug":"project_blue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2285","title":{"rendered":"Project Blue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You wouldn&#8217;t be alone if the news of <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/americas\/8021827.stm\">outbreaks of a virulent flu strain<\/a> evoked comparisons to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Stand-Expanded-First-Complete-Signet\/dp\/0451169530\/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1240879720&amp;sr=8-2\">certain doorstopper of a postapocalyptic novel<\/a>. A friend and I were chatting this morning about how we both thought of <i>The Stand<\/i> while scanning the headlines over the weekend. There are plenty of other pop culture treatments of your standard killer-virus-wipes-out-the-world scenario, but <i>The Stand<\/i> is the measure by which they are judged. It&#8217;s the book that best illustrates Stephen King&#8217;s affection for all things Americana and his recognition that civilizations are fragile things. <\/p>\n<p>Incidentally, <i>The Stand<\/i> is now being <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marvel.com\/thestand\">adapted into a comic book series<\/a> that I&#8217;m enjoying quite a bit. <\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.zemanta.com\/pixy.gif?w=695\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You wouldn&#8217;t be alone if the news of outbreaks of a virulent flu strain evoked comparisons to a certain doorstopper of a postapocalyptic novel. A friend and I were chatting this morning about how we both thought of The Stand while scanning the headlines over the weekend. There are plenty of other pop culture treatments <a href='https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2285' 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-2285","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-AR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2285","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=2285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2285\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}