{"id":1097,"date":"2003-10-25T23:44:34","date_gmt":"2003-10-26T07:44:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ogre.nu\/wp\/?p=1097"},"modified":"2005-08-27T22:55:59","modified_gmt":"2005-08-28T06:55:59","slug":"ns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=1097","title":{"rendered":"N.S."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/accordionguy.blogware.com\/blog\/_archives\/2003\/10\/24\/5068.html\">The Adventures of Accordion Guy in the 21st Century: Questions and answers with Neal Stephenson<\/a>.  I am amused to learn this &#8212; <\/p>\n<blockquote><p> Stephenson said that he generally knows the ending to the story from the first day, from the &#8220;very first time he puts pen to paper&#8221;.  &#8220;It&#8217;s just a matter of getting there.&#8221; <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> &#8212; because in <i>Snow Crash<\/i> and <i>The Diamond Age<\/i> he seems to have reached a given page-count and said to himself &#8220;Time to wrap it up.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Adventures of Accordion Guy in the 21st Century: Questions and answers with Neal Stephenson. I am amused to learn this &#8212; Stephenson said that he generally knows the ending to the story from the first day, from the &#8220;very &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=1097\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1097\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}