{"id":2318,"date":"2003-03-26T17:45:53","date_gmt":"2003-03-26T20:45:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/bb\/viewtopic.php?p=375"},"modified":"2010-05-09T09:54:46","modified_gmt":"2010-05-09T12:54:46","slug":"re-solipsism-gradient","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/2003\/03\/26\/re-solipsism-gradient\/","title":{"rendered":"Re: Solipsism Gradient"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For several reasons I decided to rename this weblog <strong>&#8220;Solipsism Gradient&#8221;<\/strong>. Blame it on having reread all of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spies.com\/~rawdon\/books\/sf\/banks.html\">Iain M. Banks<\/a>&#8216;s <a href=\"http:\/\/members.tripod.com\/a.b.i-b\/html\/faq_text.htm\">Culture<\/a> novels in a row&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;on the practical side, it&#8217;s shorter and easier to remember than &#8220;Stochastic Aleatory Ontological Expostulations&#8221;, or whatever it was before. At least for me.  \ud83d\ude1b<\/p>\n<p>Now, can someone explain to me why weblogs are traditionally named like rock bands? (Or Culture starships, for that matter?)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For several reasons I decided to rename this weblog &#8220;Solipsism Gradient&#8221;. Blame it on having reread all of Iain M. Banks&#8216;s Culture novels in a row&#8230; &#8230;on the practical side, it&#8217;s shorter and easier to remember than &#8220;Stochastic Aleatory Ontological Expostulations&#8221;, or whatever it was before. At least for me. \ud83d\ude1b Now, can someone explain [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-meta"],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Rainer Brockerhoff","author_link":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/author\/rbrockerhoff\/"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1q3Zc-Bo","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2318\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}