{"id":1399,"date":"2017-06-20T13:13:18","date_gmt":"2017-06-20T18:13:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/?p=1399"},"modified":"2017-06-20T13:13:18","modified_gmt":"2017-06-20T18:13:18","slug":"this-is-what-kathe-kojas-the-cipher-would-be-if-it-was-a-fun-little-short-sci-fi-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2017\/06\/this-is-what-kathe-kojas-the-cipher-would-be-if-it-was-a-fun-little-short-sci-fi-film\/","title":{"rendered":"This Is What Kathe Koja&#8217;s THE CIPHER would be if it was a fun little short sci-fi film\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u2026instead of a heart-numbing meditation on the difference between being a <b>person<\/b> and being a <b><i>process<\/i><\/b>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ijEfmJLV5PE\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">&#8216;course, when you think about it, this movie\u2014even in its great compression and tongue-in-cheekiness\u2014meditates on the very same thing, albeit shallowly (Hell, 2.5 minutes can only permit one to dive so deep, right?)<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">That said, Koja&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2slNpha\"><i>The Cipher<\/i><\/a> (originally titled &#8220;The Funhole,&#8221; if that ain&#8217;t foreboding) is an awesome, awesome book, a must-read in the canon of Detroit literature.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2026instead of a heart-numbing meditation on the difference between being a person and being a process. &#8216;course, when you think about it, this movie\u2014even in its great compression and tongue-in-cheekiness\u2014meditates on the very same thing, albeit shallowly (Hell, 2.5 minutes can only permit one to dive so deep, right?) That said, Koja&#8217;s The Cipher (originally &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2017\/06\/this-is-what-kathe-kojas-the-cipher-would-be-if-it-was-a-fun-little-short-sci-fi-film\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;This Is What Kathe Koja&#8217;s THE CIPHER would be if it was a fun little short sci-fi film\u2026&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"_share_on_mastodon":"1"},"categories":[11,3],"tags":[46,30,88,40,41],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1399"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1399"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1400,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1399\/revisions\/1400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}