{"id":427,"date":"2017-02-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-02-22T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/world-science-fiction\/science-fiction\/about-327\/"},"modified":"2017-02-22T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-02-22T00:00:00","slug":"about-327","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/world-science-fiction\/wsf\/about-327\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s not about scaring yourself\u2014it&#8217;s about making sense of the world around you."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/world-science-fiction\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/312\/2019\/11\/safe-image-286.jpg\" align=\"right\" \/> It&#8217;s not about scaring yourself\u2014it&#8217;s about making sense of the world around you.  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/2017\/02\/dystopian-fiction-why-we-read\/\">https:\/\/www.wired.com\/2017\/02\/dystopian-fiction-why-we-read\/<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s not about scaring yourself\u2014it&#8217;s about making sense of the world around you. https:\/\/www.wired.com\/2017\/02\/dystopian-fiction-why-we-read\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":134,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wsf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/world-science-fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427","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=427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/world-science-fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/world-science-fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/world-science-fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/world-science-fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}