{"id":10806,"date":"2016-02-21T14:52:18","date_gmt":"2016-02-21T14:52:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/on-the-book-pile\/"},"modified":"2016-02-21T14:52:18","modified_gmt":"2016-02-21T14:52:18","slug":"on-the-book-pile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/on-the-book-pile\/","title":{"rendered":"On the Book Pile"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/stoweboyd.com\/post\/139714712987\/on-the-book-pile\" class=\"tumblr_blog\">stoweboyd<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<figure class=\"tmblr-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/66.media.tumblr.com\/fa308f57b85d70cdb1d13f1d2efb3c1d\/tumblr_inline_o2w5vhLRGz1qc7p1s_540.jpg\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>I\u2019m enjoying Vitebsky\u2019s work \u2013 more of an anthropology work than many non-fiction award winners \u2013 and the dominant sense is the forcible collapse of the nomadic Tungus pastoralists in the last half of the 20th century by imperial Soviet Russia.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"tmblr-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/66.media.tumblr.com\/7229ea449f44b7bcc2b35d1f8d22f758\/tumblr_inline_o2w659NdTA1qc7p1s_540.jpg\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>Rereading an old Delany space opera from the mid sixties with strong linguistics theme: a poet\/linguist encounters fragments of an ET language that changes the way her mind works. A precursor to some of the thinking behind <i>Snow Crash<\/i>. I\u2019m halfway through, and thankfully I don\u2019t recall what happens.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>stoweboyd: I\u2019m enjoying Vitebsky\u2019s work \u2013 more of an anthropology work than many non-fiction award winners \u2013 and the dominant sense is the forcible collapse of the nomadic Tungus pastoralists in the last half of the 20th century by imperial Soviet Russia.\u00a0 Rereading an old Delany space opera from the mid sixties with strong linguistics [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-words"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-2Oi","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10806\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}