{"id":187,"date":"2013-10-04T16:03:19","date_gmt":"2013-10-04T21:03:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/?p=187"},"modified":"2014-01-30T09:57:27","modified_gmt":"2014-01-30T15:57:27","slug":"187","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/187\/","title":{"rendered":"Sci-fi thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/scan0001.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-188\" alt=\"scan0001\" src=\"https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/scan0001-201x300.jpg\" width=\"201\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/scan0001-201x300.jpg 201w, https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/scan0001-688x1024.jpg 688w, https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/scan0001-624x927.jpg 624w, https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/scan0001.jpg 851w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 201px) 100vw, 201px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is one of the classics of post-apocalypse novels, published in 1952 and despite the truly horrible cover art, it is a great read. It has an unsympathetic main character, and that is also unusual for the time and also because it works. Unsympathetic in terms of &#8216;hardbitten&#8217; and looking out for Number One first last and always. It&#8217;s an action narrative, and speeds along without a pause for internal dialogue or flashbacks. You never even find out where the guy is from.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Many of the old post-apocalypse novels are also fascinating because they describe contemporary life (from the 50&#8217;s, 60&#8217;s, 70&#8217;s) in detail. Amazing how things have changed. None of them anticipate cell phones or the Internet. Exception being Jack Vance.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is one of the classics of post-apocalypse novels, published in 1952 and despite the truly horrible cover art, it is a great read. It has an unsympathetic main character, and that is also unusual for the time and also because it works. Unsympathetic in terms of &#8216;hardbitten&#8217; and looking out for Number One first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":272,"href":"https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187\/revisions\/272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}