{"id":2392,"date":"2010-02-14T09:31:44","date_gmt":"2010-02-14T15:31:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tancos.net\/wp2\/?p=2392"},"modified":"2010-02-14T09:31:44","modified_gmt":"2010-02-14T15:31:44","slug":"enlightened-pessimism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/enlightened-pessimism\/","title":{"rendered":"Enlightened pessimism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dpsinfo.com\/williamtenn\/\">William Tenn<\/a>, who wrote some of my favorite stories, died a week ago. I wanted to link to &#8220;Bernie the Faust,&#8221; which SciFi.com used to host, but when they changed their name from the offensive &#8220;SciFi&#8221; to the stupid &#8220;SyFy,&#8221; they dropped the story. However, I did find <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wnyc.org\/shows\/spinning\/episodes\/2002\/11\/22\">an interview with Tenn<\/a> in which he reads &#8220;On Venus Have We Got a Rabbi.&#8221; The story starts shortly after the forty-minute mark, but the entire interview is worth hearing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>William Tenn, who wrote some of my favorite stories, died a week ago. I wanted to link to &#8220;Bernie the Faust,&#8221; which SciFi.com used to host, but when they changed their name from the offensive &#8220;SciFi&#8221; to the stupid &#8220;SyFy,&#8221; they dropped the story. However, I did find an interview with Tenn in which he &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/enlightened-pessimism\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Enlightened pessimism&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[500,615],"class_list":["post-2392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-and-anti-culture","tag-science-fiction","tag-william-tenn"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xam3-CA","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2392\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}