{"id":118,"date":"2008-03-18T18:51:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-19T02:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/?p=118"},"modified":"2008-03-18T18:51:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-19T02:51:00","slug":"fallen-giant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/?p=118","title":{"rendered":"Fallen Giant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes, in defiance of entropy, little knots of complexity form in the universe and awaken.  I have always found it deeply unjust that such knots, sooner or later, always <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">stop<\/span>. Each is unique, each cognizant, and if I were running things, the moment matter developed enough complexity to look around and start asking questions, well, it would have made it. It would go on forever. (Well, except for those clumps of matter who hold beliefs substantially different from mine, I mean.)<\/p>\n<p>I entertain such thoughts whenever I look upon a loved one that I know is doomed to die some day, and I generally keep it to myself.  But today I forego that privacy, because today, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/03\/19\/books\/19clarke.html?pagewanted=1&#038;_r=1&#038;hp\">Arthur C. Clarke is dead<\/a>. And that should matter to all of you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes, in defiance of entropy, little knots of complexity form in the universe and awaken. I have always found it deeply unjust that such knots, sooner or later, always stop. Each is unique, each cognizant, and if I were running things, the moment matter developed enough complexity to look around and start asking questions, well, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fellow-liars","category-misc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}