{"id":447,"date":"2007-01-28T12:04:57","date_gmt":"2007-01-28T12:04:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=447"},"modified":"2007-01-28T12:04:57","modified_gmt":"2007-01-28T12:04:57","slug":"rudys-goggles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=447","title":{"rendered":"Rudy&#8217;s goggles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rudy Rucker&#8217;s blog is always diverting, which is hardly a surprise: interesting uses of imagery, plenty of SantaCruxian-inflected wondering-out-loud, and the occasional gobsmacking one-liner. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/?entry=entry070127-225828\">Today&#8217;s posting<\/a>  carries on a tale of his glasses, lost in an off-trail canyon scramble in Big Basin Redwoods, and staying lost. So he goes looking for new frames, and summarizes his search thus:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Frame styles are finally rebounding from <b>those tiny Benjamin Franklin <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Urim%20and%20Thummim\">Urim-and-Thummim<\/a> type lenses<\/b> that lamentably have been the fashion for the last ten years. Finally you can get some frames with decent-sized lenses so that you\u2019re not peering at the world through tiny peepholes. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As a longtime connoisseur of the varieties of oracles and scrying media (though not myself a slave to eyeglasses, or a scryer), this characterization delights me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rudy Rucker&#8217;s blog is always diverting, which is hardly a surprise: interesting uses of imagery, plenty of SantaCruxian-inflected wondering-out-loud, and the occasional gobsmacking one-liner. Today&#8217;s posting carries on a tale of his glasses, lost in an off-trail canyon scramble in Big Basin Redwoods, and staying lost. So he goes looking for new frames, and summarizes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447","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=447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}