{"id":532,"date":"2008-01-23T14:12:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-23T14:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/2008\/01\/23\/philosophical-questions\/"},"modified":"2008-01-23T14:12:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-23T14:12:00","slug":"philosophical-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/2008\/01\/23\/philosophical-questions\/","title":{"rendered":"Philosophical Questions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the current issue of Wired, Clive Thompson has an interesting article, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/techbiz\/people\/magazine\/16-02\/st_thompson\"><em>Why Sci-Fi Is the Last Bastion of Philosophical Writing<\/em><\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If you want to read books that tackle profound philosophical questions, then the best \u2014 and perhaps only \u2014 place to turn these days is sci-fi. Science fiction is the last great literature of ideas.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;d recommend reading it all.<\/p>\n<div class='kindleWidget kindleLight' ><img src=\"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-content\/plugins\/send-to-kindle\/media\/white-15.png\" \/><span>Send to Kindle<\/span><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the current issue of Wired, Clive Thompson has an interesting article, Why Sci-Fi Is the Last Bastion of Philosophical Writing: If you want to read books that tackle profound philosophical questions, then the best \u2014 and perhaps only \u2014 &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/2008\/01\/23\/philosophical-questions\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_s2mail":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}