{"id":2227,"date":"2009-01-22T00:16:40","date_gmt":"2009-01-22T04:16:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/?p=2227"},"modified":"2009-01-22T00:16:40","modified_gmt":"2009-01-22T04:16:40","slug":"sf-writers-say-smart-things-wjw-on-geek-fiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/22\/sf-writers-say-smart-things-wjw-on-geek-fiction\/","title":{"rendered":"SF Writers Say Smart Things: WJW On Geek Fiction"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>I&#8217;ve never mistaken my hobbies for real life. I&#8217;ve always craved real life, even when I didn&#8217;t have one. I&#8217;ve sought out life, even when I didn&#8217;t know how. I&#8217;ve always tried to live real life, even when I didn&#8217;t have a clue.<\/p>\n<p>I travel a lot. I talk to strangers. I eat their candy. <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:right;\">&mdash;<a href=\"http:\/\/walterjonwilliams.blogspot.com\/2009\/01\/writer-geeks.html\">Walter Jon Williams<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Go read the fine rant that links to. I heartily endorse it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">I&#8217;ve never mistaken my hobbies for real life. I&#8217;ve always craved real life, even when I didn&#8217;t have one. I&#8217;ve sought out life, even when I didn&#8217;t know how. I&#8217;ve always tried to live real life, even when I didn&#8217;t have a clue. I travel a lot. I talk to strangers. I eat their candy. &mdash;Walter Jon Williams Go read&hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/22\/sf-writers-say-smart-things-wjw-on-geek-fiction\/\">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":[8,20],"tags":[334,458,238,125,157],"class_list":["post-2227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-people-say-smart-things","tag-author","tag-books","tag-philosophy","tag-quote","tag-smart-things","xfolkentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5UQvw-zV","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2227","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=2227"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2228,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2227\/revisions\/2228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}