{"id":436,"date":"2009-12-27T00:25:26","date_gmt":"2009-12-27T04:25:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/?p=436"},"modified":"2009-12-27T00:25:26","modified_gmt":"2009-12-27T04:25:26","slug":"acknowledging-the-awesome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/?p=436","title":{"rendered":"Acknowledging the awesome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This holiday season, you should see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0499549\/\">Avatar<\/a> and read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Logicomix-Search-Truth-Apostolos-Doxiadis\/dp\/0747597200\">Logicomix<\/a> (if you haven&#8217;t already).\u00a0 I entered both expecting to wince over scientific inaccuracies and bad dialogue, and left both in a state of catharsis that few books or movies have ever brought me to.\u00a0 Both break new ground, deal with big issues in a visually stunning way, have been predictably criticized as &#8220;simplistic,&#8221; and need a sequel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This holiday season, you should see Avatar and read Logicomix (if you haven&#8217;t already).\u00a0 I entered both expecting to wince over scientific inaccuracies and bad dialogue, and left both in a state of catharsis that few books or movies have ever brought me to.\u00a0 Both break new ground, deal with big issues in a visually [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","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\/436","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}