{"id":613,"date":"2009-11-03T22:46:35","date_gmt":"2009-11-04T04:46:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bendreth.com\/?p=613"},"modified":"2009-11-03T22:46:35","modified_gmt":"2009-11-04T04:46:35","slug":"life-imitates-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/?p=613","title":{"rendered":"Life imitates art"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I read a joke several years ago to the effect that the typical plot of a science fiction love story was:<\/p>\n<p>1. Boy meets girl<br \/>\n2. Boy loses girl<br \/>\n3. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/sol\/homepage\/news\/2707453\/Doctor-weds-dowdy-girl-then-builds-himself-his-ideal-wife.html\">Boy builds new girl.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s no longer science fiction, but I suppose whether it&#8217;s still a joke depends on how you feel about what they&#8217;ve done.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I read a joke several years ago to the effect that the typical plot of a science fiction love story was: 1. Boy meets girl 2. Boy loses girl 3. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}