{"id":1627,"date":"2011-04-14T06:52:59","date_gmt":"2011-04-14T06:52:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=1627"},"modified":"2014-03-06T11:11:35","modified_gmt":"2014-03-06T16:11:35","slug":"apocalypso","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=1627","title":{"rendered":"Apocalypso"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I dunno how healthy it is to read a lot of &#8216;dystopian&#8217; fiction (or non-fiction, for that matter), though I guess I&#8217;m pretty much guilty of participation in that schadenfreudian excess. Stefan Raets&#8217; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tor.com\/blogs\/2011\/04\/the-gradual-collapse-of-a-society-a-review-of-soft-apocalypse-by-will-mcintosh\">review of Will McIntosh&#8217;s <b>Soft Apocalypse<\/b><\/a> catches the poignancy very well:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The real sadness of <b>Soft Apocalypse<\/b> is seeing normal people operating under the illusion that <b>life will still go back to what it used to be<\/b>. They try to hold down a job or complete a post-grad degree, and even though the world falls apart around them, the changes are too gradual for them to lose hope completely. It\u2019s like watching rats in a maze, unaware that their paths are slowly being closed off around them and the maze is starting to catch fire at the edges. A soft apocalypse, indeed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I dunno how healthy it is to read a lot of &#8216;dystopian&#8217; fiction (or non-fiction, for that matter), though I guess I&#8217;m pretty much guilty of participation in that schadenfreudian excess. Stefan Raets&#8217; review of Will McIntosh&#8217;s Soft Apocalypse catches the poignancy very well: The real sadness of Soft Apocalypse is seeing normal people operating [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-rumination"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1627"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2290,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1627\/revisions\/2290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}