{"id":463,"date":"2009-05-18T10:25:19","date_gmt":"2009-05-18T18:25:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/?p=463"},"modified":"2009-05-18T10:27:26","modified_gmt":"2009-05-18T18:27:26","slug":"periscope-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/?p=463","title":{"rendered":"Periscope Down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, yeah, once again I&#8217;ve been remiss on the\u00a0 &#8216;crawl postings.\u00a0 And those I <em>have<\/em> managed tend to be heavy on the Lookit-me elements, while posts on nifty sciencey stuff have been pretty much absent.\u00a0 (This pisses me off more than I can say; I haven&#8217;t checked my science feeds in fucking <em>weeks<\/em>, and even so I&#8217;ve stumbled across no end of news items I&#8217;d like to present and opine upon.)<\/p>\n<p>This time, the biggest bottleneck is the damned <em>Things<\/em> story, which gleams and glitters in my mind&#8217;s eye but which then, on its way to the keyboard, passes through the crappifiers that are evidently embedded in my forearms.\u00a0 The stuff on my screen looks more like turds on a string than the multilayered hard-Lamarckian allegory mocking me from its perch in Plato&#8217;s Ideal Fun-time Extravaganza World.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s overdue already.\u00a0 And it&#8217;s over the maximum allowable word count.\u00a0 And just last night, somewhere between the pizza and the image of myself spooning a naked William Shatner with an infestation of countless twitching, blinking eyeballs scattered across his body (and thank you very fucking much for <em>that<\/em> particular image, Dave Nickle) \u2014 sometime last night, I realized that once again I&#8217;d written a story founded on a fundamental thematic contradiction, and now I have to tear the whole damn thing apart and do it again.<\/p>\n<p>Which is what I&#8217;m doing now.\u00a0 Which is why you won&#8217;t be hearing from me for a while.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe next week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, yeah, once again I&#8217;ve been remiss on the\u00a0 &#8216;crawl postings.\u00a0 And those I have managed tend to be heavy on the Lookit-me elements, while posts on nifty sciencey stuff have been pretty much absent.\u00a0 (This pisses me off more than I can say; I haven&#8217;t checked my science feeds in fucking weeks, and even [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463","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=463"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":473,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463\/revisions\/473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}