{"id":3458,"date":"2009-05-27T17:54:02","date_gmt":"2009-05-27T21:54:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3458"},"modified":"2009-05-27T16:57:19","modified_gmt":"2009-05-27T20:57:19","slug":"getting-out-of-science-fiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3458","title":{"rendered":"Getting out of science fiction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\">From a recent <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB124242592310225203.html\">profile of China Mi\u00c3\u00a9ville<\/a>:<\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\">But he feels that fantastic tales are a natural part of storytelling. When skeptics ask him, &#8220;How did you get into sci-fi and fantasy?&#8221; he has a response. &#8220;My answer is: How did you get out of it?&#8221; says Mr. Mi\u00c3\u00a9ville. &#8220;Because if you look at a roomful of kids, huge numbers of them will love aliens and monsters and witches&#8230;and at a certain point, some of them will start to leave that behind and go on to what they think of &#8212; wrongly &#8212; as more serious stuff.&#8221;<\/font><\/font><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\">Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfsignal.com\/\">SF Signal<\/a>.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From a recent profile of China Mi\u00c3\u00a9ville: But he feels that fantastic tales are a natural part of storytelling. When skeptics ask him, &#8220;How did you get into sci-fi and fantasy?&#8221; he has a response. &#8220;My answer is: How did you get out of it?&#8221; says Mr. Mi\u00c3\u00a9ville. &#8220;Because if you look at a roomful &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3458\">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":[],"tags":[16,31],"class_list":["post-3458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-books","tag-sci-fi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3458"}],"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=3458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3458\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}