{"id":150,"date":"2019-03-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-15T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/world-science-fiction\/science-fiction\/about-51\/"},"modified":"2019-11-25T15:48:14","modified_gmt":"2019-11-25T15:48:14","slug":"about-51","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/world-science-fiction\/genre\/novels\/about-51\/","title":{"rendered":"What Do the Make-Believe Bureaucracies of Sci-Fi Novels Say About Us?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/world-science-fiction\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/312\/2019\/11\/safe-image-45.jpg\" align=\"right\" \/>What Do the Make-Believe Bureaucracies of Sci-Fi Novels Say About Us? Writers of speculative fiction routinely invent rules and regulations as part of their novels\u2019 worlds. These laws tell us more about our own politics than you might think. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/03\/14\/books\/review\/ben-winters.html\">https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/03\/14\/books\/review\/ben-winters.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What Do the Make-Believe Bureaucracies of Sci-Fi Novels Say About Us? Writers of speculative fiction routinely invent rules and regulations as part of their novels\u2019 worlds. These laws tell us more about our own politics than you might think. https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/03\/14\/books\/review\/ben-winters.html<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":134,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60,107,133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-novels","category-politics","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/world-science-fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/world-science-fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/world-science-fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/world-science-fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/134"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/world-science-fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/world-science-fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/world-science-fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/world-science-fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/world-science-fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}