{"id":17679,"date":"2022-03-16T23:33:35","date_gmt":"2022-03-16T23:33:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/?p=17679"},"modified":"2022-03-17T11:21:17","modified_gmt":"2022-03-17T11:21:17","slug":"cubist-collage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/?p=17679","title":{"rendered":"Cubist Collage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-17680\" src=\"http:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/cubist.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/cubist.jpg 600w, https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/cubist-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/>Outside is shrouded in clouds and sodden with rain, so here is a view from inside.<br \/>\nAdmin1 is reading <em>The Last Astronaut<\/em> by David Wellington, a highly derivative cross between <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rendezvous_with_Rama\"><em>Rendezvous with Rama<\/em><\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alien_(film)\"><em>Alien<\/em><\/a>, complete with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/movies\/alien-chestburster-scene-stanley-kubrick\/\">chestburster scene<\/a>. How this awful, badly characterised and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Idiot_plot\">idiot-plotted<\/a> novel got on the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Arthur_C._Clarke_Award\">Clarke Award<\/a> shortlist is one of the great cosmic mysteries.<br \/>\nAdmin2 is rereading <em>Time out of Joint<\/em> by Philip K Dick. Nothing is real.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Outside is shrouded in clouds and sodden with rain, so here is a view from inside. Admin1 is reading The Last Astronaut by David Wellington, a highly derivative cross between Rendezvous with Rama and Alien, complete with chestburster scene. How this awful, badly characterised and idiot-plotted novel got on the Clarke Award shortlist is one &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/?p=17679\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Cubist Collage&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[19,20],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17679"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17679"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17684,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17679\/revisions\/17684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}