{"id":1727,"date":"2005-12-04T17:14:00","date_gmt":"2005-12-05T01:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=1727"},"modified":"2005-12-04T17:14:00","modified_gmt":"2005-12-05T01:14:00","slug":"1727","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=1727","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\">A couple of weeks ago, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/archives\/2005_11_01_index.html\">I let you all know<\/a> about an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2005\/11\/15\/3245.html\">upcoming anthology of essays titled <i>She&#8217;s Such a Geek<\/i><\/a> looking for submissions. I hope some of you (the ladies) are considering it. The submission date is January 15, 2006.<\/p>\n<p>Today, this time also courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/\">Boing Boing<\/a>, it&#8217;s a  \u00c2\u00a32,500 essay contest on <i>What is Humanity&#8217;s worst Invention?<\/i><\/p>\n<p>The snark in me wants to say something like &#8220;more humanity&#8221; &#8212; you know, all that begetting and babies and whatnot &#8212; but I&#8217;m going to go out on a limb and say the worst invention, or certainly <i>among<\/i> the worst, is that robot they used to replace Cher years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Submission deadline for the 2,000-word-or-less essay contest is March 15, 2006.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of weeks ago, I let you all know about an upcoming anthology of essays titled She&#8217;s Such a Geek looking for submissions. I hope some of you (the ladies) are considering it. The submission date is January 15, 2006. Today, this time also courtesy of Boing Boing, it&#8217;s a \u00c2\u00a32,500 essay contest on &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=1727\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[238],"class_list":["post-1727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1727"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1727\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}