{"id":210,"date":"2009-04-12T08:53:11","date_gmt":"2009-04-12T12:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/?p=210"},"modified":"2009-04-12T08:53:12","modified_gmt":"2009-04-12T12:53:12","slug":"im-waiting-for-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/?p=210","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m waiting for music"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sfwriter.com\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-211\" title=\"cocaw1mdhc\" src=\"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/cocaw1mdhc.jpg\" alt=\"cocaw1mdhc\" width=\"191\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I have literally just started this book (on <a href=\"http:\/\/whatever.scalzi.com\/2009\/04\/09\/the-big-idea-robert-j-sawyer\/\">Scalzi<\/a>&#8216;s recommedation) and, so far, its a fascinating techno thriller, centered around a 15 year-old girl who has never been able to see.\u00a0 The acknowledgments show that the author spent a lot of time trying to get it right &#8211; working with physicians, scinetists, blind people, to be able to tell much of the story through this character.\u00a0 There is so much about how she <em><strong>hears<\/strong><\/em> the world, and it really resonates with me.\u00a0 So far, and it&#8217;s very early in the story, there is really no music to speak of.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have literally just started this book (on Scalzi&#8216;s recommedation) and, so far, its a fascinating techno thriller, centered around a 15 year-old girl who has never been able to see.\u00a0 The acknowledgments show that the author spent a lot &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/?p=210\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[50,23,264],"tags":[265,1495,266],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=210"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":212,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210\/revisions\/212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}