{"id":1814,"date":"2004-02-21T20:35:47","date_gmt":"2004-02-22T01:35:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2004\/02\/21\/1814.html"},"modified":"2018-03-12T16:45:22","modified_gmt":"2018-03-12T21:45:22","slug":"book-report-appleseed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2004\/02\/21\/book-report-appleseed\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: Appleseed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Your Humble Blogger liked the cover of John Clute&#8217;s <I><a href=\"http:\/\/www.swindongig.co.uk\/stupc\/Reviews\/Appleseed.html\">Appleseed<\/a><\/I> (NY Tor 2001), which just goes to show.\n<p><blockquote>&#8212;It is one of eleven similar roots, which twine around one another to form the walls of an abyssal central shaft \ufffd which resembles, therefore, from within, the bore of a rifle, though we must not carry that image too far: because this shaft is no straighter than the eleven roots of yew which shape it, taking the shape, rather, of a tight coil, like the tautened mainspring of a watch from below the well of the past on Human Earth, though you must visualize this mainspring as coiling spirally around the central axis of the core, so that from a distance \ufffd I now move your mind&#8217;s eye to a point sufficiently distant \ufffd it has the appearance of a ball of string or, as you murmured in your mind&#8217;s eye several Hundred Heartbeats ago, tumbleweed.<br>-pp. 211-212<\/blockquote>\n<p>Redintegro Iraq,<br>-Vardibidian.\n<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Your Humble Blogger liked the cover of John Clute\u2019s Appleseed (NY Tor 2001), which just goes to show. \u2014It is one of eleven similar roots, which twine around one another to form the walls of an abyssal central shaft \ufffd&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[194],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-report"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1814"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16928,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1814\/revisions\/16928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}