{"id":228,"date":"2002-11-21T13:40:00","date_gmt":"2002-11-21T18:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/uncategorised\/miss_world_riots.html"},"modified":"2006-10-15T19:32:04","modified_gmt":"2006-10-16T00:32:04","slug":"miss_world_riots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/culture\/miss_world_riots.html","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s a post-apocalyptic world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some years ago when I was in university, a friend asked me &#8220;Do you ever get the feeling that you&#8217;re living in a bad cyberpunk novel?&#8221; I feel that way now, more than ever, especially after reading the headline &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/world\/africa\/2498931.stm\" title=\"Miss World riots escalate\">Miss World riots escalate<\/a>&#8220;. Just when you thought that life on Earth was getting boring.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of cyberpunk novels, I started reading <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.ca\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0441007465\/crazedmonke0d-20\">Neuromancer<\/a> for the first time since I first read it some ten years ago. I remember being a little confused as to the plot and, luckily, can&#8217;t remember much of the story. It&#8217;s all new to me. Maybe bits and pieces will float to the top of my consciousness in the form of d\u00c3\u00a9j\u00c3\u00a0 vu. We shall see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some years ago when I was in university, a friend asked me &#8220;Do you ever get the feeling that you&#8217;re living in a bad cyberpunk novel?&#8221; I feel that way now, more than ever, especially after reading the headline &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/world\/africa\/2498931.stm\" title=\"Miss World riots escalate\">Miss World riots escalate<\/a>&#8220;. Just when you thought that life on&nbsp;&hellip;&nbsp;<a class=\"read_more\" href=\"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/culture\/miss_world_riots.html\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Continue reading &ldquo;It&#8217;s a post-apocalyptic world&rdquo;\"><span>Read more<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}