{"id":2953,"date":"2008-06-06T17:22:55","date_gmt":"2008-06-06T22:22:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/06\/the-possibility-of-an-island\/"},"modified":"2023-09-07T04:55:35","modified_gmt":"2023-09-07T09:55:35","slug":"the-possibility-of-an-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/06\/the-possibility-of-an-island\/","title":{"rendered":"The Possibility of an Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"tn_post\">\n<div style=\"margin-bottom: 10px; float: left; margin-right: 10px;\"><img src='http:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/51vu6vfgmnl_ss500_.jpg' alt='51vu6vfgmnl_ss500_.jpg' width='250' \/><\/div>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know why, but I picked up that book during our last trip to NYC&#8230; I did not know the author nor the title. <\/p>\n<p>But it turned out to be an excellent book and I immediately ordered more books from the french writer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.houellebecq.info\">Michel Houellebecq<\/a>. I especially loved the mixture of philosophy, futurism and criticism on today&#8217;s culture and society.<\/p>\n<p>Update: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0926764\/\">La Possibilit\u00e9 d&#8217;une \u00eele<\/a> is about to be released as a movie!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know why, but I picked up that book during our last trip to NYC&#8230; I did not know the author nor the title. But it turned out to be an excellent book and I immediately ordered more books from the french writer Michel Houellebecq. I especially loved the mixture of philosophy, futurism and&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/06\/the-possibility-of-an-island\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Possibility of an Island<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2953"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2953"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8129,"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2953\/revisions\/8129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}