{"id":755,"date":"2005-01-30T22:08:34","date_gmt":"2005-01-31T02:08:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blg\/2005\/01\/30\/all-watched-over-by-machines-of-loving-grace\/"},"modified":"2023-09-07T05:07:03","modified_gmt":"2023-09-07T10:07:03","slug":"all-watched-over-by-machines-of-loving-grace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/2005\/01\/30\/all-watched-over-by-machines-of-loving-grace\/","title":{"rendered":"All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;I like to think (and<br \/>\nthe sooner the better!)<br \/>\nof a cybernetic meadow<br \/>\nwhere mammals and computers<br \/>\nlive together in mutually<br \/>\nprogramming harmony<br \/>\nlike pure water<br \/>\ntouching clear sky.<\/p>\n<p>I like to think<br \/>\n(right now, please!)<br \/>\nof a cybernetic forest<br \/>\nfilled with pines and electronics<br \/>\nwhere deer stroll peacefully<br \/>\npast computers<br \/>\nas if they were flowers<br \/>\nwith spinning blossoms.<\/p>\n<p>I like to think<br \/>\n(it has to be!)<br \/>\nof a cybernetic ecology<br \/>\nwhere we are free of our labors<br \/>\nand joined back to nature,<br \/>\nreturned to our mammal<br \/>\nbrothers and sisters,<br \/>\nand all watched over<br \/>\nby machines of loving grace.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Richard Brautigan 1967<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;I like to think (and the sooner the better!) of a cybernetic meadow where mammals and computers live together in mutually programming harmony like pure water touching clear sky. I like to think (right now, please!) of a cybernetic forest filled with pines and electronics where deer stroll peacefully past computers as if they were&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/2005\/01\/30\/all-watched-over-by-machines-of-loving-grace\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755"}],"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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=755"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10122,"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755\/revisions\/10122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}