{"id":234,"date":"2004-07-30T14:59:00","date_gmt":"2004-07-30T14:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=234"},"modified":"2004-07-30T14:59:00","modified_gmt":"2004-07-30T14:59:00","slug":"234","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=234","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Apocalypse<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Worth reading: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.therevealer.org\/archives\/main_story_000595.php\">&#8220;The Last Man on Earth,&#8221;<\/a> an essay by Kathryn Joyce at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.therevealer.org\">The Revealer<\/a>, on the enduring power of such books as <em>1984<\/em>, <em>The Handmaid&#8217;s Tale<\/em>, and <em>Brave New World<\/em>. Here is the first paragraph:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In my father&#8217;s favorite dark fantasy he is Mr. Mead of Ray Bradbury&#8217;s short story, &#8216;The Pedestrian&#8217;: persecuted for walking alone at night without purpose instead of watching television, as everyone else does in a disturbingly-familiar authoritarian state of the future. That Bradbury&#8217;s dystopia sounds a lot like Westchester, where my father grew up, or any other suburb, is of course the real chill &#8212; an intended one, one of recognition.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apocalypse Worth reading: &#8220;The Last Man on Earth,&#8221; an essay by Kathryn Joyce at The Revealer, on the enduring power of such books as 1984, The Handmaid&#8217;s Tale, and Brave New World. Here is the first paragraph: &#8220;In my father&#8217;s favorite dark fantasy he is Mr. Mead of Ray Bradbury&#8217;s short story, &#8216;The Pedestrian&#8217;: persecuted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s6xQTg-234","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}