{"id":277,"date":"2004-03-17T07:31:25","date_gmt":"2004-03-17T13:31:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/?p=277"},"modified":"2005-05-02T14:23:18","modified_gmt":"2005-05-02T20:23:18","slug":"happy-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/2004\/03\/17\/happy-birthday\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today is <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.williamgibsonbooks.com\">William Gibson&#8217;s <\/a>Birthday!<\/p>\n<p>For those of you who have been hiding under a rock, or are freshly hatched from the Great Egg, <a target=\"_blank\" HREF=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/external-search?tag=fantasistnet&#038;keyword=william+gibson+science-fiction&#038;mode=books\">William Gibson<\/a> is one of the fathers of the cyberpunk movement.  He&#8217;s generally credited with coining the term &#8220;cyberspace&#8221; and popularizing a somewhat more realistic, if sometimes bleak, view of the future.<br \/>\nHe also ran away to Canada in 1968 to avoid the draft.  Which is the only bad thing I can say about him.  I otherwise admire his work and thought processes.  Certainly his literature is beyond compare.<br \/>\nIf you&#8217;re interested in science-fiction <i>at all<\/i> and haven&#8217;t read any of his work, you have no idea what science-fiction really is.  And not the movies, either, you have to actually <i>read<\/i> his work.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, Happy Birthday, Bill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is William Gibson&#8217;s Birthday! For those of you who have been hiding under a rock, or are freshly hatched from the Great Egg, William Gibson is one of the fathers of the cyberpunk movement. He&#8217;s generally credited with coining the term &#8220;cyberspace&#8221; and popularizing a somewhat more realistic, if sometimes bleak, view of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,16,27,14,17,30],"tags":[172],"class_list":["post-277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-famous-authors","category-fiction-and-its-kin","category-fun","category-news-and-current-events","category-personal","category-science-fiction","tag-william-gibson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}