{"id":2312,"date":"2015-06-03T15:31:23","date_gmt":"2015-06-03T19:31:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/?p=2312"},"modified":"2017-01-12T12:17:50","modified_gmt":"2017-01-12T17:17:50","slug":"can-blog-posts-nourish-the-soul-scott-a-alas-not-me-as-existence-proof","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/?p=2312","title":{"rendered":"Can blog posts nourish the soul?  Scott A. (alas, not me) as existence proof"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reading the essays and <a href=\"http:\/\/slatestarcodex.com\/2015\/06\/02\/and-i-show-you-how-deep-the-rabbit-hole-goes\/\">speculative fiction<\/a> of Scott Alexander, as they&#8217;ve grown in awesomeness\u00a0even just within the past half-year, has for me been like witnessing the birth of a new Asimov. \u00a0(For more Alexandery goodness, check out\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/slatestarcodex.com\/2015\/04\/21\/universal-love-said-the-cactus-person\/\">Universal Love, Said the Cactus Person<\/a>.) \u00a0That this nerd-bard, this spinner of stupid Internet memes into reflections on eternity, came to my attention by way of his brilliantly <a href=\"http:\/\/slatestarcodex.com\/2015\/01\/01\/untitled\/\">defending <i>me<\/i><\/a>, is almost immaterial at this point; I don&#8217;t think it plays any\u00a0role in my continuing admiration for\u00a0his work. \u00a0Whatever you do, just keep writing, other Scott A.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading the essays and speculative fiction of Scott Alexander, as they&#8217;ve grown in awesomeness\u00a0even just within the past half-year, has for me been like witnessing the birth of a new Asimov. \u00a0(For more Alexandery goodness, check out\u00a0Universal Love, Said the Cactus Person.) \u00a0That this nerd-bard, this spinner of stupid Internet memes into reflections on eternity, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[12,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-metaphysical-spouting","category-nerd-interest"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2312"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2315,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2312\/revisions\/2315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}