{"id":243,"date":"2008-09-17T05:29:35","date_gmt":"2008-09-17T13:29:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.airs.com\/blog\/archives\/243"},"modified":"2008-09-17T05:29:35","modified_gmt":"2008-09-17T13:29:35","slug":"anathem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.airs.com\/blog\/archives\/243","title":{"rendered":"Anathem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just finished Neal Stephenson&#8217;s new book Anathem.  I enjoyed it quite a bit.  The book is based on a lot of the Western philosophical tradition, albeit under different names.  He provides an SF explanation for Plato&#8217;s Theory of Forms, which I think anybody has to appreciate, loosely (very loosely) based on some of G\u00c3\u00b6del&#8217;s work.  And he is getting better at actually writing endings to his novels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just finished Neal Stephenson&#8217;s new book Anathem. I enjoyed it quite a bit. The book is based on a lot of the Western philosophical tradition, albeit under different names. He provides an SF explanation for Plato&#8217;s Theory of Forms, which I think anybody has to appreciate, loosely (very loosely) based on some of G\u00c3\u00b6del&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-philosophy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.airs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.airs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.airs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.airs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.airs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.airs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.airs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.airs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.airs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}