{"id":2626,"date":"2019-03-12T01:17:01","date_gmt":"2019-03-12T01:17:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=2626"},"modified":"2025-04-19T19:55:45","modified_gmt":"2025-04-19T19:55:45","slug":"book-log-1-down-and-out-in-the-magic-kingdom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=2626","title":{"rendered":"Book Log #1: Down And Out In The Magic Kingdom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom<\/em> by Cory Doctorow (borrowed)<\/p>\n<p>Cory Doctorow is one of those names that have floated around in my mind as Someone Famous who I have never taken the time to learn more about.  I mostly know him because he was referenced in an XKCD comic that I didn&#8217;t understand.<\/p>\n<p>At any rate, he writes a good book.  Recommended by a co-worker because we were discussing the Black Mirror episode (that I also haven&#8217;t seen) about a world where people rate each other, <em>Down and Out<\/em> is about a future world where death and scarcity have been conquered, and Disneyworld is basically run by benevolent gangs.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s lots of fun world building, and a mystery, and sharp, amusing writing.  It&#8217;s a tasty snack of a book, that you can consume in an average domestic airplane flight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom by Cory Doctorow (borrowed) Cory Doctorow is one of those names that have floated around in my mind as Someone Famous who I have never taken the time to learn more about. I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=2626\">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":[481,513],"tags":[519],"class_list":["post-2626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-log","category-books","tag-book-log-2019"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2626","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=2626"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2627,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2626\/revisions\/2627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}