{"id":1139,"date":"2009-03-13T11:45:32","date_gmt":"2009-03-13T11:45:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/wordpress\/?p=1139"},"modified":"2009-03-13T11:45:32","modified_gmt":"2009-03-13T11:45:32","slug":"short_stories_s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2009\/03\/short_stories_s.html","title":{"rendered":"Short Stories: Stories of Your Life and Others, by Ted Chiang"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Very unusual stories.  Heavily science- and math-based sci fi (Dad, I think you&#8217;re going to want to borrow this) that in some stories felt a bit beyond my grasp, theoretically.  (Fortunately the characters keep you involved, even when their minds are on a different plane than yours.)  Not necessarily futuristic, although sometimes a touch of it.  But not fantastical (along the lines of, say George Saunders); even the wildest ones feel like they COULD be happening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Very unusual stories. Heavily science- and math-based sci fi (Dad, I think you&#8217;re going to want to borrow this) that in some stories felt a bit beyond my grasp, theoretically. (Fortunately the characters keep you involved, even when their minds &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2009\/03\/short_stories_s.html\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-readin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1139\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}