{"id":210,"date":"2005-12-21T12:08:21","date_gmt":"2005-12-21T17:08:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/creator\/2005\/12\/21\/210\/"},"modified":"2005-12-21T12:08:21","modified_gmt":"2005-12-21T17:08:21","slug":"210","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/2005\/12\/21\/210\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via Kevan comes a <a href=\"http:\/\/deoxy.org\/pkd_how2build.htm\" title=\"Which is thoughtcrime, evidently.\">1978 speech by Philip K. Dick<\/a> about science fiction, solipsism, Gnosticism and Disneyland that everybody else has probably read before.  Regardless, it offered me the best answer to the question &#8220;why write?&#8221; I&#8217;ve ever encountered:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;What if our universe started out as not quite real, a sort of illusion, as the Hindu religion teaches, and God, out of love and kindness for us, is slowly transmuting it, slowly <i>and secretly<\/i>, into something real?&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via Kevan comes a 1978 speech by Philip K. Dick about science fiction, solipsism, Gnosticism and Disneyland that everybody else has probably read before. Regardless, it offered me the best answer to the question &#8220;why write?&#8221; I&#8217;ve ever encountered: &#8220;What if our universe started out as not quite real, a sort of illusion, as the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73,16,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-digital-neighbors","category-discoveries","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}