{"id":563,"date":"2003-09-08T13:33:45","date_gmt":"2003-09-08T13:33:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/wp\/?p=563"},"modified":"2003-09-08T13:33:45","modified_gmt":"2003-09-08T13:33:45","slug":"because-the-future-is-depressing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/2003\/09\/because-the-future-is-depressing\/","title":{"rendered":"Because the future is depressing?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.globeandmail.com\/servlet\/ArticleNews\/TPStory\/LAC\/20030908\/COSPIDER08\/\">Rant in the Globe &#038; Mail from Spider Robinson<\/a> regarding the current state of science fiction.  He opines that SF readers today seem to prefer fantasies rather than the forward-looking works of science and space travel that used to dominate the genre.<br \/>\n<i>&#8216;Why are our imaginations retreating from science and space, and into fantasy?&#8217;<\/i><\/p>\n<address>(via Slashdot)<\/address>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rant in the Globe &#038; Mail from Spider Robinson regarding the current state of science fiction. He opines that SF readers today seem to prefer fantasies rather than the forward-looking works of science and space travel that used to dominate the genre. &#8216;Why are our imaginations retreating from science and space, and into fantasy?&#8217; (via &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/2003\/09\/because-the-future-is-depressing\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Because the future is depressing?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_import_markdown_pro_load_document_selector":0,"_import_markdown_pro_submit_text_textarea":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geeky-fanboy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}