{"id":1844,"date":"2009-08-15T00:21:04","date_gmt":"2009-08-15T08:21:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/2009\/08\/15\/i-am-not-a-fast-reader\/"},"modified":"2009-08-15T00:21:04","modified_gmt":"2009-08-15T08:21:04","slug":"i-am-not-a-fast-reader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/2009\/08\/15\/i-am-not-a-fast-reader\/","title":{"rendered":"I am not a fast reader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Time it took me to read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.librarything.com\/work\/18498\" title=\"'I also go over the spider babies really quickly.'\">A Deepness in the Sky<\/a>:  about a year.<\/p>\n<p>Time it took me to realize that the plot is an endorsement of free-market capitalism to an almost Randian degree (minus the class issues):  about six months more.<\/p>\n<p>Time it took me to grasp that the localizers in the book are a pretty clear metaphor for the actors in an idealized anarcho-capitalist society:  eight months after that.<\/p>\n<p>At this rate, I should be really catching on to some of the subtler symbolism ten years after I&#8217;m dead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Time it took me to read A Deepness in the Sky: about a year. Time it took me to realize that the plot is an endorsement of free-market capitalism to an almost Randian degree (minus the class issues): about six months more. Time it took me to grasp that the localizers in the book are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,77],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-shame"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1844\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}