{"id":27430,"date":"2016-12-08T19:01:25","date_gmt":"2016-12-09T00:01:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/?p=27430"},"modified":"2016-12-31T17:00:45","modified_gmt":"2016-12-31T22:00:45","slug":"the-1387229th-eastern-subordinate-incarnation-of-a-lohan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/the-1387229th-eastern-subordinate-incarnation-of-a-lohan\/","title":{"rendered":"The 1,387,229th Eastern Subordinate Incarnation of a Lohan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I felt like re-reading Cordwainer Smith&#8217;s &#8220;Western Science Is So Wonderful,&#8221; the tale of a local Chinese demon with strong pro-Communist sentiments who wants to study engineering. Rather than climb the stairs to the main library, I found it online <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vb-tech.co.za\/ebooks\/Smith%20Cordwainer%20-%20Western%20Science%20Is%20So%20Wonderful%20-%20SF.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. Smith wrote science fiction on a grand scale, but he could do comedy, too.<\/p>\n<p>The Kelly Freas illustration for the story <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mcclaverty\/13368184254\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I felt like re-reading Cordwainer Smith&#8217;s &#8220;Western Science Is So Wonderful,&#8221; the tale of a local Chinese demon with strong pro-Communist sentiments who wants to study engineering. Rather than climb the stairs to the main library, I found it online here. Smith wrote science fiction on a grand scale, but he could do comedy, too. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/the-1387229th-eastern-subordinate-incarnation-of-a-lohan\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The 1,387,229th Eastern Subordinate Incarnation of a Lohan&#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":[7,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-and-anti-culture","category-words"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xam3-78q","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27430","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=27430"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27437,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27430\/revisions\/27437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}