{"id":1013,"date":"2015-12-17T16:29:12","date_gmt":"2015-12-17T21:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jsylvest.com\/blog\/?p=1013"},"modified":"2015-12-17T16:29:12","modified_gmt":"2015-12-17T21:29:12","slug":"nick-harkaway-on-gigo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jsylvest.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/nick-harkaway-on-gigo\/","title":{"rendered":"Nick Harkaway on GIGO"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Garbage in, garbage out. Or rather more felicitously, the tree of nonsense is watered with error, and from its branches swing the pumpkins of disaster.<br \/>\n<cite>\u2014 Nick Harkaway, \u201cThe Gone Away World,\" p.145<\/cite><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The dialogue in this scene is an entertaining take on terrorism, tyranny, and bureaucracy. I would highly recommend this book irrespective of that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Garbage in, garbage out. Or rather more felicitously, the tree of nonsense is watered with error, and from its branches swing the pumpkins of disaster. \u2014 Nick Harkaway, \u201cThe Gone Away World,\" p.145 The dialogue in this scene is an &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jsylvest.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/nick-harkaway-on-gigo\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-1013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-quotes","tag-books","post_format-post-format-aside","wpautop"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3sddF-gl","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1226,"url":"https:\/\/www.jsylvest.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/book-list-2018q2\/","url_meta":{"origin":1013,"position":0},"title":"Book List: 2018Q2","author":"jsylvest","date":"7 August 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Here are the books I read in April, May and June. Since it's already August, I'm going to forego commentary on some of these and just hit publish. The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary, Simon Winchester This was\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Book List&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Book List","link":"https:\/\/www.jsylvest.com\/blog\/category\/book-list\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Cover of \"The Professor and the Madman,\" Simon Winchester","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jsylvest.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/professor-223x300.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsylvest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsylvest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsylvest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsylvest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsylvest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1013"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsylvest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1091,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsylvest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013\/revisions\/1091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsylvest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsylvest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsylvest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}