{"id":2221,"date":"2025-12-04T14:35:56","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T22:35:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/?p=2221"},"modified":"2025-12-04T14:35:56","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T22:35:56","slug":"3-dec-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/2025\/12\/04\/3-dec-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"3 Dec 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nemo saltat sobrius nisi insanit<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for this post. All fiction is speculative. But I admit I&#8217;ve never been a<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>fan of speculative or science fiction, though I am a proponent of science, and of speculation. Maybe because of its form, iambic pentameter, Turner\u2019s Genesis is changing my mind.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>Grief, Shmief! I&#8217;m so sick of it.<\/p>\n<p>Yet I&#8217;m stuck in the Ick of it<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Struldbrugg\">Struldbrugg<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>When they came to fourscore years, which is reckoned the extremity of living in this country, they had not only all the follies and infirmities of other old men, but many more, which arose from the dreadful prospect of never dying.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Wiki on struldruggg<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Struldbrugg\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Struldbrugg<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Or, as I<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>call it, Senemtia<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/inventory\/dementia\/\">https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/inventory\/dementia\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Luggnagg\">Luggnagg<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Or, as I<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>call it, Senemtia<\/p>\n<p>The ick of it<\/p>\n<p>The incomparable beauty of bossa nova<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nemo saltat sobrius nisi insanit Thanks for this post. All fiction is speculative. But I admit I&#8217;ve never been a\u00a0 fan of speculative or science fiction, though I am a proponent of science, and of speculation. Maybe because of its form, iambic pentameter, Turner\u2019s Genesis is changing my mind. \u00a0Grief, Shmief! I&#8217;m so sick of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/2025\/12\/04\/3-dec-2025\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;3 Dec 2025&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2221"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2223,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2221\/revisions\/2223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}