{"id":282,"date":"2008-02-24T17:34:11","date_gmt":"2008-02-24T22:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/?p=282"},"modified":"2015-01-07T14:09:39","modified_gmt":"2015-01-07T18:09:39","slug":"adventures-in-anachronistic-irony-5593935","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/?p=282","title":{"rendered":"Adventures in Anachronistic Irony #5593935"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Invasion-Wesleyan-Classics-Science-Fiction\/dp\/081956558X\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/wp\/images\/verne-invasion.jpg\" height=\"250\" width=\"150\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/wp\/images\/verne-invasion.jpg\" height=\"250\" width=\"150\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/wp\/images\/verne-invasion.jpg\" height=\"250\" width=\"150\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/wp\/images\/verne-invasion.jpg\" height=\"250\" width=\"150\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bruce_Sterling\">Bruce Sterling<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Invasion-Wesleyan-Classics-Science-Fiction\/dp\/081956558X\/\">Jules Verne&#8217;s <em>Invasion of the Sea<\/em><\/a> &#8212;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Mr. Verne&#8217;s latest techno-thriller boldly confronts the menace of Islamic terrorism. He has topnotch chops in technical accuracy, with endearing dashes of broad humor and a keen eye for telling detail. Let me be the first to predict this: someday this French novelist will be known worldwide.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bruce Sterling on Jules Verne&#8217;s Invasion of the Sea &#8212; Mr. Verne&#8217;s latest techno-thriller boldly confronts the menace of Islamic terrorism. He has topnotch chops in technical accuracy, with endearing dashes of broad humor and a keen eye for telling detail. Let me be the first to predict this: someday this French novelist will be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,40,46],"tags":[55,54,419,425],"class_list":["post-282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-middleeast","category-sci-fi","tag-bookish","tag-islam","tag-middleeast","tag-sci-fi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=282"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8596,"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282\/revisions\/8596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}