{"id":432,"date":"2005-03-25T06:01:39","date_gmt":"2005-03-25T12:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/?p=432"},"modified":"2005-03-25T06:01:39","modified_gmt":"2005-03-25T12:01:39","slug":"invented-encyclopedias","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/2005\/03\/25\/invented-encyclopedias\/","title":{"rendered":"Invented Encyclopedias"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A favorite topic of mine.<br \/>\nOf course, you poor people who are regular readers here, besides being often frustrated at my lack of content, know that I love invented worlds.  In fact, I&#8217;ve been playing a game in one called<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/gamegrene.com\/wiki\/Main_Page\"> Ghyll<\/a>.  The game, as you might be aware, involves creating a fictitious world by way of writing a fictitious encyclopedia.  It&#8217;s been loads of fun.  But, we&#8217;re not the first folks to do it.  I know of at least one other invented encyclopedia that describes a world other than our own: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/faculty.msvu.ca\/pschwenger\/codex.htm\">the Codex Seraphinianus<\/a>.<br \/>\nNot only did the somewhat mysterious author invent a world as vast as his imagination, but he also invented a language and script to go with it.  So, this entire book, which is now quite rare, is in an unknown language.  A dead language of dreams.  The entire book is like an artefact from aother world.  And it&#8217;s quite beautiful.<\/p>\n<p>I hope that makes up for last week&#8217;s less than spectacular Friday Fun Link!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A favorite topic of mine. Of course, you poor people who are regular readers here, besides being often frustrated at my lack of content, know that I love invented worlds. In fact, I&#8217;ve been playing a game in one called Ghyll. The game, as you might be aware, involves creating a fictitious world by way [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","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":[22,29,27,18,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-constructed-languages","category-fantastic-and-surreal","category-fun","category-invented-worlds","category-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}