{"id":1856,"date":"2012-11-12T16:39:46","date_gmt":"2012-11-12T16:39:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=1856"},"modified":"2012-11-13T15:17:14","modified_gmt":"2012-11-13T15:17:14","slug":"book-log-ready-player-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=1856","title":{"rendered":"Book Log &#8211; Ready Player One"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Ready Player One<\/i> by Ernest Cline<\/p>\n<p>Man, that is a lot of 80s references.<\/p>\n<p>I feel really&#8230; pandered to.  <i>Here is a book full of references to things you are nostalgiac about&#8230; movies, video games, etc.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a fine dystopian future plot, where a young, overweight gamer can save the world (sort of) by remembering 80s trivia, and playing video games.<\/p>\n<p>Really&#8230; just so&#8230; pandered to.<\/p>\n<p>But that&#8217;s fine.  It&#8217;s an enjoyable ride, as long as you can overlook the Mary Sue-ness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ready Player One by Ernest Cline Man, that is a lot of 80s references. I feel really&#8230; pandered to. Here is a book full of references to things you are nostalgiac about&#8230; movies, video games, etc. It&#8217;s a fine dystopian &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=1856\">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":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[481],"tags":[486],"class_list":["post-1856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-log","tag-book-log-2012"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1856"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1866,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1856\/revisions\/1866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}