{"id":175319,"date":"2023-10-19T18:34:42","date_gmt":"2023-10-19T23:34:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/?p=175319"},"modified":"2023-11-14T06:56:29","modified_gmt":"2023-11-14T12:56:29","slug":"of-dishwashers-and-cigarette-lighters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/of-dishwashers-and-cigarette-lighters\/","title":{"rendered":"Of dishwashers and cigarette lighters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/drboli.com\/2023\/10\/19\/letter-to-the-editor-84\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">letter to the editor<\/a>&#8221; today at Dr. Boli&#8217;s magazine reminded me (and at least one other person) of Henry Kuttner&#8217;s tale from eighty years ago, &#8220;The Twonky.&#8221; I&#8217;ve occasionally wanted to post or link to the story, one of the more prophetic writings of the twentieth century, but until recently I hadn&#8217;t been able to find it online. You can read it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prosperosisle.org\/spip.php?article870\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<span id='easy-footnote-1-175319' class='easy-footnote-margin-adjust'><\/span><span class='easy-footnote'><a href='https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/of-dishwashers-and-cigarette-lighters\/#easy-footnote-bottom-1-175319' title='The story was published with the by-line &amp;#8220;Lewis Padgett,&amp;#8221; one of the names used by Kuttner and C.L. Moore for their joint stories, but &amp;#8220;The Twonky&amp;#8221; seems to me to be mostly or entirely Kuttner&amp;#8217;s work.'><sup>1<\/sup><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The &#8220;letter to the editor&#8221; today at Dr. Boli&#8217;s magazine reminded me (and at least one other person) of Henry Kuttner&#8217;s tale from eighty years ago, &#8220;The Twonky.&#8221; I&#8217;ve occasionally wanted to post or link to the story, one of the more prophetic writings of the twentieth century, but until recently I hadn&#8217;t been able &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/of-dishwashers-and-cigarette-lighters\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Of dishwashers and cigarette lighters&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,29,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-175319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-decline-and-fall","category-sf-and-beyond","category-words"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xam3-JBJ","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175319"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":175887,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175319\/revisions\/175887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}