{"id":1526,"date":"2005-06-29T22:57:00","date_gmt":"2005-06-30T05:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2005\/06\/29\/im-h-g-wells-bitch\/"},"modified":"2005-06-29T22:57:00","modified_gmt":"2005-06-30T05:57:00","slug":"im-h-g-wells-bitch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2005\/06\/29\/im-h-g-wells-bitch\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m H.G. Wells, bitch!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The new <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">War of the Worlds<\/span> movie opened today.  In the spirit of <a href=\"http:\/\/kfmonkey.blogspot.com\/2005\/06\/geek-texts-101.html\">Kung Fu Monkey<\/a>&#8212; for those who loved the voiceover from the trailer, but who&#8217;ve never read <a href=\"http:\/\/ebbs.english.vt.edu\/20th\/txts\/wells\/wow.html\">the original novel<\/a>&#8212; here&#8217;s the first paragraph from the book, read by yours truly:<\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.audioblogger.com\/media\/64832\/207107.mp3\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.audioblogger.com\/media\/images\/audioblogger.gif\" class=\"audImg\"border=\"0\" alt=\"this is an audio post - click to play\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Did I mention that I&#8217;ve set up an audioblogger account?  I wish they&#8217;d replace the clunky IVR interface with something like Tellme&#8217;s voice reco, but it&#8217;s still more convenient than not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new War of the Worlds movie opened today. In the spirit of Kung Fu Monkey&#8212; for those who loved the voiceover from the trailer, but who&#8217;ve never read the original novel&#8212; here&#8217;s the first paragraph from the book, read&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[1,133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1526\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}