{"id":1109,"date":"2008-02-08T17:08:25","date_gmt":"2008-02-08T21:08:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/08\/sf-writers-say-smart-things-peter-watts\/"},"modified":"2008-03-31T23:32:43","modified_gmt":"2008-04-01T03:32:43","slug":"sf-writers-say-smart-things-peter-watts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/08\/sf-writers-say-smart-things-peter-watts\/","title":{"rendered":"SF Writers Say Smart Things: Peter Watts"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8220;But going after the Scientologists in a world full of Christians, Muslims, and Trekkies is like surveying a world ravaged by AIDS and devoting yourself to the eradication of the hangnail.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:right\">&mdash;<a href=\"http:\/\/rifters.com\/real\/2008\/02\/in-defense-of-scientology.html\">Peter Watts<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">&#8220;But going after the Scientologists in a world full of Christians, Muslims, and Trekkies is like surveying a world ravaged by AIDS and devoting yourself to the eradication of the hangnail.&#8221; &mdash;Peter Watts <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/08\/sf-writers-say-smart-things-peter-watts\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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":[20],"tags":[125,107,157],"class_list":["post-1109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-people-say-smart-things","tag-quote","tag-religion","tag-smart-things","xfolkentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5UQvw-hT","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1109\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}