{"id":894,"date":"2008-06-09T16:37:24","date_gmt":"2008-06-09T16:37:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/wordpress\/?p=894"},"modified":"2025-04-05T15:10:38","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T20:10:38","slug":"fiction_war_wit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2008\/06\/fiction_war_wit.html","title":{"rendered":"Fiction: War with the Newts, by Karel Capek"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our June <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/challenge_08\/\">challenge <\/a>book.<\/p>\n<p>Really sharp political\/societal commentary. First section is really rollicking fun. Second and third, a bit darker. Sometimes very sad.<\/p>\n<p>Poignantly predictable, in a way, given world history now in 2008, but probably less predictable and more predictive in its time (first published in 1936).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Loved it.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>By the way, Capek is the dude who came up with (created? originated? whateva!) the word &#8220;Robot&#8221; (in his play R.U.R.). This is also the first book to cause some random stranger to come up and talk to me on public transportation IN MY LIFE and given that I have 5 yrs in Chitown and 13 yrs in NYC reading on public transit every work day, that&#8217;s saying something.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our June challenge book. Really sharp political\/societal commentary. First section is really rollicking fun. Second and third, a bit darker. Sometimes very sad. Poignantly predictable, in a way, given world history now in 2008, but probably less predictable and more &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2008\/06\/fiction_war_wit.html\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,39,27,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-challenge_08","category-readin","category-recommending"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894","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=894"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3845,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894\/revisions\/3845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}