{"id":674,"date":"2008-03-17T06:21:42","date_gmt":"2008-03-17T11:21:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/?p=674"},"modified":"2008-03-17T06:21:42","modified_gmt":"2008-03-17T11:21:42","slug":"happy-birthday-mr-gibson-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/2008\/03\/17\/happy-birthday-mr-gibson-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday, Mr. Gibson!"},"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 for the past twenty years, or have been freshly cloned, <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 the primary progenitor of the cyberpunk movement. He&#8217;s generally credited with coining the term &#8220;cyberspace&#8221; and popularizing a somewhat more realistic, if somewhat 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. I admire his work very much and occasionally will reread some of his short stories, just to capture the feel of his prose.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, celebrate his birthday with a little science-fiction in thanks for what he&#8217;s done for the genre.<\/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 for the past twenty years, or have been freshly cloned, William Gibson is the primary progenitor of the cyberpunk movement. He&#8217;s generally credited with coining the term &#8220;cyberspace&#8221; and popularizing a somewhat more realistic, if somewhat bleak, view of [&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":[36,16,3,28,30],"tags":[172],"class_list":["post-674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-famous-authors","category-fiction-and-its-kin","category-modern-fantasy","category-science-and-technology","category-science-fiction","tag-william-gibson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674","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=674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}