{"id":925,"date":"2009-11-11T09:59:47","date_gmt":"2009-11-11T17:59:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/?p=925"},"modified":"2009-11-11T09:59:47","modified_gmt":"2009-11-11T17:59:47","slug":"paolo-bacigalupi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/11\/paolo-bacigalupi\/","title":{"rendered":"Paolo Bacigalupi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ever heard of Paolo Bacigalupi? You will. He&#8217;s the author of the newly published <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nightshadebooks.com\/cart.php?m=product_detail&#038;p=145\">The Windup Girl<\/a>, which is garnering five stars from Tampa to Timbuktu. So says BookPage: \u201cThe Windup Girl will almost certainly be the most important SF novel of the year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And Bacigalupi is no woo-woo! Here&#8217;s a fun blurb from an interview over yonder at EcoGeek: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ecogeek.org\/content\/view\/2665\/73\/\">&#8220;As environmental ideas have entered the zeigeist, mostly thanks to global warming&#8211;and still mostly focused on that issue&#8211;plenty of technology companies are lining up to tell us how they&#8217;re helping green\/save\/clean the environment. Advertising agencies and PR firms are delighted to sell us any number of &#8220;green&#8221; gizmos and they&#8217;re throwing in some nice self-esteem blowjobs for all of us, using their persuasive talents to assure us that we&#8217;re enlightened and forward thinking because we just stuffed a green X into our Prius.<\/p>\n<p>But green blowjobs aren&#8217;t really my gig.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Keep an eye out for this guy; he&#8217;s going places. <\/p>\n<p>posted by Mudd<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever heard of Paolo Bacigalupi? You will. He&#8217;s the author of the newly published The Windup Girl, which is garnering five stars from Tampa to Timbuktu. So says BookPage: \u201cThe Windup Girl will almost certainly be the most important SF novel of the year.\u201d And Bacigalupi is no woo-woo! Here&#8217;s a fun blurb from an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=925"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":928,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/925\/revisions\/928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}